Accession Number:

AD1018964

Title:

Advanced Extremely High Frequency Satellite (AEHF)

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

U.S. Air Force El Segundo United States

Personal Author(s):

• Tarleton,Robert

Report Date:

2015-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

68.0

Abstract:

Advanced Extremely High Frequency Satellite AEHF is a joint service satellite communications system that provides global, survivable, secure, protected, and jam-resistant communications for high priority military ground, sea, and air assets. The system consists of four satellites in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit that provide 10 times the capacity of the 1990s-era Milstar Block II satellites. The system provides continuous 24-hour Extremely High Frequency Extended Data Rate coverage between 65 degrees north and 65 degrees south latitude. AEHF allows the National Security Council and Combatant Commanders to control their tactical and strategic forces at all levels of conflict up to and including general nuclear war, and it supports the attainment of information superiority.

Descriptors:

• satellite communications
• military satellites
• integrated systems
• extremely high frequency
• cost estimates
• military acquisition
• test and evaluation
• Synchronous satellites
• earth orbits

Subject Categories:

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE