Airbus will provide satellite communications to the Belgian Armed Forces















(Boursier.com) — Airbus signed a contract with the Belgian Ministry of Defense to provide tactical satellite communications services for a period of 15 years to the Belgian armed forces. These will use the payload channels hosted by Airbus military UHF (ultra high frequency) communications on board a commercial telecommunications satellite manufactured by Airbus.

With this new UHF payload, Airbus will be able to offer a new UHF communications service to the armed forces, in particular those of European countries and NATO allies. The UHF frequency band being a relatively scarce orbital resource, this offer will compensate for the lack of capacity in the world. Airbus has already signed several firm orders for this capability, well ahead of the service’s planned launch in 2024. The UHF payload will be operated from the Airbus Network Operations Center in Toulouse. Its 18 UHF channels will allow up to 200 simultaneous communications over Europe, the Middle East, Africa, much of Asia, as well as the Atlantic Ocean (towards the east of Brazil) and the Indian Ocean (west of Australia).


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