BADGER Broad Area Deployable Ground Terminal
BlueHalo (Applied Technology Associates)
Deployable, software-defined multi-beam, multi-band phased-array ground terminal for resilient SATCOM — GEO/MEO/LEO support, ±60° scan angle.
Technical specifications
- Orbital regimes
- GEO/MEO/LEO
- Operational frequencies
- L/S/C-Band
- Scan angle
- ±60 degrees
- Simultaneous TX/RX
- 4/12
- Channel bandwidth
- 25 MHz
- Operating temperature range
- -40°C to +50°C
- Installation
- Deployable 20-foot ISO container
- High-power amplifier
- 2-kilowatt equivalent spatial distributed HPA
About
BADGER is a software-defined antenna system providing a modular, reconfigurable, large-form-factor digital phased array developed under the former BlueHalo brand (now part of AeroVironment following its 2025 acquisition). It supports GEO/MEO/LEO orbital regimes and complex, multi-mission SATCOM/telemetry/EW operations using proprietary digital beamforming technology, plus Broad Area Automated Acquisition and Integrated Complex Mono-pulse Tracking for rapid target acquisition and tracking.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.
