[MilCom] Re: Northstar

[Bill "Superspy" Boltinghouse]

That is a very good article from Mitre

Northstar
Mystic Star
Satstar

Are all communication systems for the http://www.disa.mil/ns/stratcomm.html
SLCS Senior Leadership Communications System

http://www.disa.mil/acq/contracts/engineering/engnexgenlb1.html

Command Center Support. Provide systems engineering and technical assistance
support for airborne and command centers, associated ground architectures,
and ground entry points and earth stations. Representative of this task is
sustainment, improvement, and interoperability support for the NMCS airborne
assets, i.e., National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC), CINCSTRAT Airborne
Command Post, and other Worldwide Airborne Resources (WABNRES), SLCS
airborne platforms, i.e., Air Force One, other Special Air Missions
aircraft, and CINC Support Aircraft, and for ground user facilities, nodes,
and supporting networks, i.e., White House Communications Agency, National
Military Command Center (NMCC), NMCC Site-R, SATSTAR, NORTHSTAR, MYSTIC
STAR, and other DISN nodes.

Not sure what else you want to know, but there is much more depending on
your interest level and how much time you wish to research this subject

Bill Boltinghouse
Council Bluffs Iowa
http://billboltinghouse.tripod.com/bill-webs/


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Russell" <benrussellpa at yahoo.com>
To: <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 7:49 AM
Subject: [MilCom] Re: Northstar


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> > Check my web site for more info on the signal below
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> > http://ncamonitor.tripod.com/nmcs/northstar_gep_info.html
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> > http://ncamonitor.tripod.com/
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> Having no idea what you were talking about, I did a quick Google search
for
> some background info on Northstar.  I found this document:
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http://www.mitre.org/work/tech_papers/tech_papers_00/wilson_wideband/wilson_ideband.pdf
> which may be of interest to some folks.
>
> Ben