Preventive & corrective maintenance
Ground station maintenance that keeps you online.
Weather, wear and time take a toll on every ground station. We catch problems early and fix them fast. Our field engineers and technicians maintain your antennas, RF equipment and site infrastructure on a monthly, annual or one-time basis, extending service life and protecting quality of service.
Field engineers & technicians
Maintenance crews who understand live systems.
Our technicians know what’s at stake when the equipment they’re servicing is carrying traffic. They work around your operations to maximize uptime, with the experience to tackle the toughest maintenance tasks quickly and cost-effectively.
What we maintain
Every part of your ground station.
From bull gears & feed windows to deice ducting: if it’s on your antenna, we service it.
Antennas & structures
- Earth station antennas, VSAT to 32M
- VSAT terminals: mobile, flyaway & SNG
- Load frames, mounts & kingposts
- Radomes
- Deice systems
- Radar antennas & pedestals
RF & electronics
- HPAs & waveguide subsystems
- LNAs, LNBs & frequency converters
- Satellite modems
- Antenna control systems
- IFL & fiber optic cabling
Site systems
- Grounding & lightning protection
- Equipment shelters
- Lighting systems
- Cable pull boxes & conduit
Maintenance services
Hands-on care, inside and out.
Power washing
- Reflector, sub-reflector & hub
- Back structure, kingpost & mount
- Radomes & equipment shelters
- Antenna foundations
Corrosion removal
- Media blasting
- Water jetting
- Manual removal
Coating application
- Bonding & corrosion-inhibiting primers
- Epoxy, direct-to-metal & heat-diffusive coatings
- Cold galvanizing
- Airless spray, HVLP and brush or roll
Grease & lube
- Azimuth & elevation jacks
- Gear boxes, bull gears & pinions
- Polarization drive systems
- Pivot points
General maintenance
- Jack boot & feed window replacement
- Motor & gear box repair
- Cad welding & weatherproofing
- Custom steel & aluminum fabrication
- Deice systems & seam tape replacement
- Lighting & lightning protection
Site infrastructure
- Facilities maintenance
- UPS systems & generators
- Hilti firestop systems
Equipment maintenance experts
Built around your budget and your team.
Every maintenance program is tailored to your equipment and your budget. We complement your existing staff, so your people can stay focused on running the network while we keep the hardware in top shape.
Free download
The 44-point preventive maintenance checklist.
A printable field guide for earth station maintenance, organized by subsystem the way a technician works through a site visit.
- Reflector, feed, mount, drives, controls and deice
- Grounding, shelter, power and site checks
- Suggested intervals and space for notes on every item
FAQ
Maintenance questions, answered.
Don’t see your question? Ask an engineer or call +1 (321) 676-5250.
What does preventive maintenance include?
How often should a ground station be maintained?
Can you maintain equipment that is carrying live traffic?
Do you handle emergency repairs?
Which antennas do you maintain?
Can you support our in-house team?
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Don’t wait for the next outage.
Answer a few quick questions and an engineer will reply, typically within 4 hours during business hours. Prefer to talk? Call +1 (321) 676-5250.