Company type | Private |
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Industry | Communications satellite operation |
Founded | 2001 |
Headquarters | , United States |
Owner | Loral Space & Communications (majority share) Hisdesat |
Website | xtar |
XTAR, LLC is a commercial satellite operator[1] exclusively providing services in the X band frequency range, which is the communications cornerstone of today's military, diplomatic, humanitarian and emergency disaster response operations.[2] A privately owned and operated company,[3] XTAR supports the critical satellite communications needs of governments[4] around the world through its two X-band payloads. The XTAR satellites were designed and built by private financing. Loral Space & Communications, Inc. owns the majority share. XTAR is headquartered in Ashburn, VA.
With its high-powered 72 MHz transponders and global, fixed and steerable beams, XTAR provides over 4 GB of secure X-band capacity with coverage from Denver east to Singapore. The system can accommodate massive wideband data requirements and provides overlapping coverage with regional redundancy for increased service and reliability.
XTAR bandwidth is not application-specific; it can support and transmit to any one of the primary architectures used by government agencies today, including fixed-to-fixed, tactical-to-tactical, reach-back, broadcast and airborne platforms.[5]
In 2019, XTAR and Spanish governmental satellite operator Hisdesat announced plans to construct two new military communications satellites. The new 'Next Generation' satellites will include X-band and military Ka-band capacity.