Business Approach

U.S. Space Mobile Communications is a new business created to help the U.S. government and its coalition partners meet their increasing demands for cost-effective mobile communications bandwidth and solutions. U.S. Space Mobile Communications has a detailed understanding of the government customer’s requirements, and has devised cost-effective, quickly deployable, flexible and reliable voice and video solutions to meet those needs.

U.S. Space Mobile Communications draws on Thuraya Telecommunications’ unique combination of modular communication platforms that have the flexibility to provide instant, open audio or video communications over local, wide area or global networks.  Thuraya’s network covers strategically critical geographies, uses standards-based technology, and is adaptable to continuously changing environments.

U.S. Space Mobile Communications offer a unique combination of customer benefits:

  • Lower latency on the network
  • Capability to reconfigure number of beams, beam sizes and beam locations in orbit, enabling single hop calls between Thuraya terminals across the coverage area
  • Dynamic resource allocation: Capability to dynamically distribute power uniformly or non-uniformly over coverage area to cope with traffic demand  (20% of total power can be made available in 1 single beam)
  • Satellite specifications enable more compact and feature-rich terminals than any other competitor
  • Smallest, ultra-light weight satellite data modem with speeds of up to 444kbps and 384kbps streaming
  • Asymmetric streaming options
  • World’s most rugged satellite handset
  • High penetration alert signal to ensure call termination to customers in disadvantaged areas (phone will ring indoors or with antenna stored)
  • Beam leasing opportunities — guaranteed bandwith
  • Military applications and solutions
  • End-to-end military grade encrypted solutions
  • 24/7 customer support

U.S Space Mobile Communications combines the highly regarded and trusted U.S. Space team with the premier technology and bandwidth capacity provided by Thuraya.