A ThinKom<\/b> ThinAir antenna was the primary communications technology onboard the Rapcon-X aircraft\u2019s recent inaugural flight. <\/p>\n
Rapcon-X is an aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (A-ISR) solution by Sierra Nevada Corporation<\/strong> (SNC) that uses a Bombardier Global<\/strong> 6500 jet for its base configuration. In November, Sierra Nevada announced the aircraft\u2019s first successful flight from Hagerstown, Maryland. <\/p>\n ThinKom announced Dec. 17 that its ThinAir GT 2517 phased-array satcom antenna system delivered beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) network connectivity during the test. The phased-array antenna can roam between networks in Geostationary (GEO) and Non-Geostationary (NGSO) orbit. <\/p>\n \u201cAs the primary communications pipeline deployed on SNC\u2019s Rapcon-X aircraft, ThinKom\u2019s GT 2517 reliably and securely supports assured mission success whenever and wherever needed,\u201d said Bill Milroy, Chairman and CTO of ThinKom. \u201cThe open-architecture platform provides robust and resilient command, control, and communications capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n The Rapcon-X aircraft has been selected for the U.S. Army\u2019s Theater Level High Altitude Expeditionary Next Airborne ISR (ATHENA) project. The aircraft is designed to be rapidly configurable and it can be adapted for specific reconnaissance missions by switching out the onboard equipment. In its baseline configuration, the aircraft can collect and process signals intelligence, electro-optical reconnaissance and ground moving-target signatures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A ThinKom ThinAir antenna was the primary communications technology onboard the Rapcon-X aircraft\u2019s recent inaugural flight. Rapcon-X is an aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (A-ISR) solution by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) that uses a Bombardier Global 6500 jet for its base configuration. In November, Sierra Nevada announced the aircraft\u2019s first successful flight from Hagerstown, Maryland. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}