The effects of any budget/program decisions made since the information was collected during 1997-98 are NOT reflected in the National Security Space Road Map (NSSRM).

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(U) AN/SMQ-11 Shipboard Receiving Terminal

Description (U):

(U) The AN/SMQ-11 system provides the Navy with secure, high-resolution, direct readout of visual and infrared imagery within 3 minutes of receipt from the spacecraft for use in tactical air support, anti-submarine warfare, and general weather information.

(U) The first 24 AN/SMQ-11 systems employ a dual UHF planar-array antenna subsystem mounted on a single pedestal. One of the two arrays is used to receive data from DMSP satellites and the second is used to receive data from TIROS-N or GOES-WEFAX satellites, although not concurrently. System serial number 25 and all later systems employ a single UHF planar-array antenna subsystem mounted on a single pedestal. Antenna control provides stable, programmed tracking of polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites through Sea State 5. Pedestal-mounted down-converters convert the received DMSP or TIROS-N/GOES satellites frequencies to 137 MHz for transmission to a Receiver-Demodulator in the Processing Subsystem. The Receiver-Demodulator processes and amplifies the signal before passing it on to the Data Formatter, where the data is routed through a decryptor and then enhanced and formatted for transmission to the Facsimile Reproducer. The Facsimile Reproducer produces black-and-white weather images from the data. The AN/SMQ-11 also allows analog tape recordings to be made of the satellite data for archival purposes.

User Impact (U):

(U) The system provides the Navy with secure, high-resolution, direct readout of visual and infrared imagery within 3 minutes of receipt from the spacecraft for use in tactical air support, anti-submarine warfare, and general weather information.

Programmatics (U):

(U) Operational.

Images (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name	Title
AN/SMQ-11	Shipboard Receiving Terminal

Related Initiatives (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name	Title
DMSP	Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP)
GEOSAT	Geodetic/Geophysical Satellite (GEOSAT)
GOES	Geostationary Operational Earth Satellite (GOES)
Mark IV	Mark IV
Mark IV-B	Mark IV-B
STT	Small Tactical Terminal

Related Requirements (U): None.

Related Categories (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name	Title
User Equipment\EM	Environmental Monitoring User Equipment

Road Map Placements (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name	Title
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING	SPACE FORCE ENHANCEMENT: ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

Requirements, Funding and Additional Hotlinks (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name
Shipboard Receiving Terminal

Lead Office (U):

Navy.

(U) DoD: OASD(C3I), Pentagon, Washington, DC
(U) Service Staff: SAF/AQS, Pentagon, Washington, DC
(U) Major Command: HQ AFSPC/DR, Peterson AFB, CO
(U) Program Management: SMC/DMSP Program Office, Los Angeles AFB, CA

Point of Contact (U):

(U) National Security Space Road Map Team, NSSA, Open Phone: (703) 808-6040, DSN 898-6040.

Date Of Information (U):

(U) 01 November 1997

(U) Road Map Production Date: 23 June 2001