EchoStar’s Hughes awarded contract from SES Space & Defense

Hughes Network Systems, an EchoStar company, announced that SES Space & Defense, a wholly owned subsidiary of SES, awarded Hughes a contract to provide a flexible, software-defined, multi-orbit, auto-PACE solution and associated modems in support of SES Space & Defense’s and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet program. The Hughes solution will enable resilient broadband connectivity using both Ku- and Ka-band Geostationary, Medium Earth Orbit, and Low Earth Orbit satellite constellations for various Comms on the Pause and Comms on the Move test scenarios.