Artistic rendition of WGS, courtesy of Boeing.

...Wideband Global Satellite communication spacecraft arrived March 9th at the Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida. The WGS-5 spacecraft will undergo final processing and encapsulation at Astrotech Corporation and will be transported to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where it is scheduled to launch atop a Delta IV launch vehicle once the booster is cleared for flight.

WGS is the only military satellite communication system that can support simultaneous X- and Ka-band communications, with cross banding that makes communicating across terminal types transparent to the warfighter. WGS currently collects and routes real-time data through X-band, K-band, and switchable X-/Ka-band terminals being used for strategic, tactical, and comm-on-the-move communications.