The FORTE SatCom on the Move (SOTM) test facility, with its 50-meter antenna tower, enables realistic emulation of mobile bidirectional satellite links in Ku-band and Ka-band in various channel environments (with fading, shadowing, etc.), with movements of the SOTM terminal replicated via an electromechanical motion emulator.
Due to similar frequency ranges in 5G FR2, this setup has already been successfully used for experiments and projects in the field of broadband terrestrial communications. Here, for example, a 5G beamforming antenna test environment including a scenario for a satcom backhaul network was developed and tested.