NewswireTODAY - /newswire/ - Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France, 2018/10/15 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in United States, has chosen Thales to develop and build an operational ground station in the southwest part of the country, at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. Euronext: HO

• The United States (NOAA) has chosen Thales’ ground station as part of the NOAA SARSAT system;
• The contract includes one MEOLUT Next, engineering support and optional maintenance services for 2,5 years;
• Based on Thales Alenia Space’s powerful and compact MEOLUT Next phased array solution.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in United States, has chosen Thales to develop and build an operational ground station in the southwest part of the country, at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, to track Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) satellites• operating in medium Earth orbit (MEO). The ground station will receive and process 406 MHz distress beacon signals from the MEO satellites being tracked, and relay them to the US SARSAT (Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking) program’s Mission Control Center (USMCC), via US government communication links, for validation and distribution to rescue authorities. This ground station will be designated the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Southwest USA Medium-Earth Orbit Local User Terminal (SUSA MEOLUT), and will be an integral part of the MEO-based ground system operated by the USMCC.

SUSA MEOLUT will be working in conjunction with NOAA’s two operational MEOLUTs, located at the US Coast Guard’s (USCG) COMMSTA stations in Honolulu and Miami. It is expected to be an operational part of the NOAA SARSAT system on a 24/7 basis. The MEO system, which provides distress alert and location data for search and rescue (SAR) authorities in near real-time, uses spacecraft and ground facilities to detect and locate signals from the 406 MHz distress beacons.

Chrystelle Dugimont
T: +33(0)4 92 92 74 06 - E: chrystelle.dugimont[.]thalesaleniaspace.com.

Cinzia Marcanio
T: +39(0)641 512 685 - E: cinzia.marcanio[.]thalesaleniaspace.com.

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