Kratos to supply Q/V/Ka-band gateway systems for Gulf Space Technology's software-defined THAICOM-10
The contract covers the satellite's first feeder-link gateways and antennas, plus an integrated monitoring and control system tied into the satellite operations center.
Kratos Defense has won a contract from Gulf Space Technology, the operator formerly known as Thaicom, to deliver fully integrated Q/V/Ka-band gateway and antenna systems for the THAICOM-10 software-defined satellite. The award includes the new feeder-link gateways supporting the satellite's high-throughput software-defined payload — which the vendor says offers two to three times the effective capacity of conventional Ka-band HTS — across a multi-site architecture with diversity switching to mitigate weather fade at Q/V frequencies. An integrated Monitoring & Control system connects the gateways to the Satellite Operations Center with automatic alarm correlation.
The contract signals that Southeast Asian satellite operators are moving decisively to software-defined payloads with largely automated ground segments — operations centers plus automated monitoring rather than manual station-keeping. Contract value was not disclosed, and THAICOM-10's capacity claims are vendor figures. As regional neighbors modernize their space infrastructure in this direction, demand grows for the systems-integration and monitoring layers around these deployments, a work category adjacent to industrial telemetry and facilities-monitoring integration.