Parabolic Dish Killer – Dual use all sky RF digital phased array

Current satellite ground stations use mechanically gimbaled parabolic reflector antennas, also known as satellite dishes. These provide a single pencil beam, enabling communication with only one satellite at a time, and require electronic motors to steer the dish to face and track the target satellite in the sky.

Quasar’s ground station is the world’s first true digital multibeam phased array with unique all-sky capability. Its ground station supports dozens of beams simultaneously for both SATCOM and SDA missions from a single compact aperture. One array has the equivalent capacity of at least five separate 5 m parabolic dishes from a single sensor. This significantly reduces operating expenses and provides additional functionality to improve the performance of space-to-earth links.

Benefits:

• Satcom bottlenecks are reduced, with no loss of passes when LEO satellites fly in swarms.
• New Space Domain Awarenes insights, including the ability to detect, fingerprint and track unknown objects anywhere in the sky. Providing a comprehensive database of RF emissions at high granularity Pattern-of-Life processing provides actionable alerts for discovered anomalies.
• Spectrum monitoring identifies jamming, illegal transmissions and grey zone activity.