[Satellite TODAY 04-18-11] EMS Defense & Space received a follow-on contract from Boeing to design and fully integrate a power divider and a splitter combiner assembly for the seventh flight set of the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite architecture.
    WGS-7 will support additional X- and Ka-band communications requirements for U.S. military warfighters. EMS Defense & Space will provide space, airborne and ground-based applications, as well as its Wavestorm GS-GBS Ka-band receive antenna aperture designed to enable full data rates from the WGS constellation and support airborne or ground-based comms-on-the-move applications across all of the major X-band constellations.
    "EMS’s solution significantly lowered our risk and made integration much easier. It also reduced spacecraft mass, which has enhanced the spacecraft’s overall performance," Boeing Project Manager Les Maldoon said in a statement.
Financial details of the contract were not disclosed.