Kratos Awarded Contract to
Deliver OneWeb Spectrum Monitoring System for its
LEO Satellite Constellation
April 25, 2022
Kratos Defense & Security
Solutions, Inc. has been awarded a contract to
deliver an advanced spectrum monitoring system for
OneWeb to monitor, analyze and review the utilized
spectrum to support high quality of service for its
fleet of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations.
The system will monitor the
spectrum used between its global network of
Satellite Network Portal (SNP) gateways and its
constellation of LEO satellites. The OneWeb Spectrum
Monitoring System (OSMS) will help staff monitor,
manage and analyze this spectrum, the radio
frequencies that satellite signals travel over.
“With our fleet of LEO
satellites that will deliver on our mission to
provide space connectivity around the world, it is
critical for us to monitor and manage the RF
spectrum to ensure that we are delivering on our
service performance targets,” stated David Price,
Vice President, Access Layer Program at OneWeb. “We
are working with Kratos, experts in RF monitoring,
measurement and analysis to design, build and
integrate the system into our ground operations.”
The OSMS will incorporate
Kratos’ industry-leading, integrated spectrum
monitoring capabilities to enable real-time
management of Radio Frequency (RF) usage and to
monitor compliance with frequency transmission
regulations. As part of the contract, Kratos is
responsible for designing, developing, and
installing the OSMS and integrating the system with
OneWeb’s ground segment.
At the heart of the OSMS LEO
monitoring solution, Kratos will deploy a big data
processing, storage and analytics platform for
satellite operations. The system will retrieve,
store, and access the spectrum traces captured at
each antenna during a satellite pass. The RF data
across all gateway sites will be consolidated
through the OSMS to enable OneWeb’s Network
Operations staff to centrally monitor, review,s and
analyze the spectrum.
“The OSMS is being built to
address the need to monitor very fast-moving LEO
satellites and scale to the needs of OneWeb’s fleet
of satellites. The Kratos technology used in the
OSMS can retrieve, process, and store the high
volume of data at almost one gigabit per second on
the ground,” explained Bruno Dupas, President of
Kratos Communications in France. “Kratos and OneWeb
are working together to successfully deploy the
OSMS, one of the most advanced spectrum monitoring
systems for LEO constellations in the industry.”