Reacher Satellite Ground Terminal
Reacher is a mobile X‐Band Satellite ground terminal (SGT) acquired by the British Ministry Of Defence, it is designed to replace all medium and large legacy SGTs used in the land environment. It is intended to deliver services through Skynet 5 satellites, and to assist in the transition to TCP/IP network protocol services. Reacher was brought into service in 2007. Secure communications are delivered through the Skynet 5 private finance initiative contract with Airbus Defence and Space (previously Paradigm Secure Communications) in partnership with Information Systems and Services at MoD Corsham. Variants. Reacher came initially  in three variants, 44 of which were delivered to the military: As of 2014, two new variants were under development: Transport. All Reacher terminals are transportable using Chinook helicopters (underslung). The Large variant can be transported by C17 and the Medium and RM variants by C130.