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Why Earn the TSS Certification?

Earning the Secure SATCOM Professional (SSP) certification establishes your expertise in high-security satellite communications, encryption protocols, and advanced Electronic Counter-Countermeasures (ECCM). This certification validates your ability to configure and maintain resilient SATCOM networks, ensuring secure and interference-resistant communications in government, defense, and enterprise environments. Whether securing critical military operations, protecting corporate satellite infrastructure, or advancing in cybersecurity for SATCOM networks, the SSP certification enhances credibility, expands career opportunities, and demonstrates mastery of secure satellite communications.

SSP Certification

The Secure SATCOM Professional (SSP) credential confirms expertise in encrypted SATCOM communication, anti-jamming technologies, network security protocols, and resilient SATCOM architectures. It validates knowledge of high-security encryption techniques, cybersecurity best practices, and ECCM strategies to safeguard sensitive satellite communications.

Professionals who earn the SSP certification demonstrate a high standard of proficiency and are equipped to defend and maintain secure SATCOM networks, ensuring mission-critical reliability in government, defense, and enterprise sectors.

Certified individuals may use the SSP designation after their name to reflect their achievement.

Authorized Training and Study Guidelines

While not required, candidates are encouraged to take exam preparation courses offered by third-party training providers that align with Aerospace Technical SSP certification standards. These courses cover the topics included in the exam and help candidates prepare for certification.

Aerospace Technical Recommended Reading & Study Materials:

• Satellite Communications, Fifth Edition – Dennis Roddy, Linwood Jones, David G. Long, McGraw Hill, 2024.

• Satellite Communications Systems Engineering: Atmospheric Effects, Satellite Link Design and System Performance, Second Edition – Louis J. Ippolito Jr., Wiley, 2017.

• Satellite Communications and Networks – J. Das, Springer, 2023.

• Satellite Communication Systems, Third Edition – Barry Evans (Editor), The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2008.

• Satellite-Based Communications Security: A Survey of Threats, Solutions, and Research Challenges – Pietro Tedeschi, Savio Sciancalepore, Roberto Di Pietro, arXiv, 2021.

Maintaining Certification

The SSP certification is valid for 3 years. To maintain certification, individuals must:

• Pass a reduced-fee renewal exam, or

• Provide proof of meaningful work demonstrating ongoing application of certification standards and pay the reduced fee.

Details and reminders are automatically sent to credential holders for their convenience.