SES<\/b>, ThinKom<\/b> and Hughes Network Systems<\/b> reported a multi-orbit satellite service demonstration for government airborne missions which the company\u2019s said shows multi-orbit resilience for critical missions. <\/p>\n
The companies tested a ThinKom ThinAir Ka2517 airborne satcom terminal over SES\u2019s Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) and Geostationary (GEO) satellite networks at ThinKom\u2019s Hawthorne, California facilities and on an aircraft in Mojave, California. The demonstration included Hughes software-defined ruggedized HM400 airborne modem for roaming across the satellites. <\/p>\n
The testing validated the latest ThinAir Ka2517 software interfacing with the Hughes HM400 modem for MEO and GEO operations. The Ka2517 is based on ThinKom\u2019s VICTS phased-array technology.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe demonstrated architecture leveraging the phased-array antenna and open-standards modem has the versatility to interoperate with satellites in GEO and non-geostationary (NGSO) orbits, ensuring global connectivity that meets the governments\u2019 Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) requirements for multi-orbit operations,\u201d said Will Tong, Vice President of Strategic Government Initiatives for SES. <\/p>\n
SES and Hughes have been a part of similar multi-orbit demonstrations with Honeywell and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems.<\/p>\n
Correction: A previous version of this story gave an incorrect usage statistic for the Ka2517 antenna. The Ka2517 is based on the VICTS antenna, but doesn\u2019t have the same commercial usage as the VICTS. SES, ThinKom and Hughes Network Systems reported a multi-orbit satellite service demonstration for government airborne missions which the company\u2019s said shows multi-orbit resilience for critical missions. The companies tested a ThinKom ThinAir Ka2517 airborne satcom terminal over SES\u2019s Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) and Geostationary (GEO) satellite networks at ThinKom\u2019s Hawthorne, California facilities and on an aircraft […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54041,"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-54040","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\/54040"}],"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=54040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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