Payloads and Mission Systems
GA-EMS has a rich heritage in developing complex, high-performance payloads and integrated space systems to support multi-domain optical communication, satellite networking, data sharing, and collective on-orbit computing requirements.
We offer unique sensor systems, avionics, subsystems and components, and flight-ready spacecraft to help customers connect to the possibilities of space.
Expertise in:
- Secure Networked Communications
- Earth Observation
- Electro Optical Infrared (EO/IR) Systems
- Adaptive Optics
- Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT)
- Remote Sensing
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
- Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR)
- Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Radio Frequency (RF) Missions
- Technology Demonstrations
Optical Communication Terminals
Space communication calls for higher data rates to enable secure, reliable transmission of large amounts of critical information between space, air, land and sea.
GA-EMS’ Optical Communication Terminals (OCTs) provide essential support for satellite networking, data and information sharing, and collective on-orbit computing. Our OCTs conform to Space Development Agency standards and facilitate modular, space-based communications services, providing a more resilient architecture to ensure 24/7 connectivity from earth to space.
Optical Ground Station
Our Optical Ground Station (OGS) provides critical high-speed communications between satellites and mission data centers on Earth. Multiple networked OGSs facilitate a continuity of connectivity if atmospheric turbulence interrupts signal downlink or uplink.
Sensors
GA-EMS offers a depth of experience in deploying some of the nation’s highest performing surveillance and sensing assets to support a broad range of on-orbit missions. Our expertise in rapid innovation and development has led to an expanding portfolio of visible and infrared sensor system payloads.
Weather Data for the Warfighter
We’re developing and delivering advanced electro-optical sensors systems to support the global collection and timely relay of critical weather data to improve situational awareness and enhance the military’s ability to plan and execute strategic and humanitarian missions.
Missile Warning & Tracking
Our advanced Electro Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) missile warning/tracking payloads and fire control/missile defense payloads, which incorporate on-orbit mission data processing, deliver missile tracks in real-time. Integrated into satellites launched into low Earth orbit (LEO), our EO/IR payloads provide persistent worldwide missile detection and tracking capabilities critical to supporting our nation’s security interests.Adaptive Optics
- Optical communication across multiple domains
- Imaging through turbulence for Space Domain Awareness and ISR
- Optical weather for site selection (historical) and link availability analysis (forecast)
GA-EMS’ advanced Adaptive Optics technology enhances optical and sensor capabilities for use in space-to-ground optical communication, weapon systems, and ISR. When an optical beam is propagated at long ranges through the atmosphere, it becomes distorted by atmospheric turbulence. For free-space optical communication systems, this limits the bandwidth and operation range of the link.
Our Adaptive Optics system precisely measures the atmospheric distortion and dynamically corrects the turbulence effects that degrade performance. The Adaptive Optics system has been proven to increase the range, bandwidth, and reliability of free space optical communication systems.