{"id":55209,"date":"2022-06-16T00:56:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/oneweb-reveals-details-of-ifc-trial-on-leo\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T00:56:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:56:05","slug":"oneweb-reveals-details-of-ifc-trial-on-leo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/oneweb-reveals-details-of-ifc-trial-on-leo\/","title":{"rendered":"OneWeb Reveals Details of IFC Trial on LEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>OneWeb<\/strong> and <strong>Stellar Blu Solutions<\/strong> have delivered high-speed, low-latency inflight LEO satellite connectivity to a commercial airliner, the two companies announced June 14. This first test flight was conducted aboard a <strong>Boeing<\/strong> B777-200LR and took off from Fort Worth Alliance Airport (KAFW), in Texas on May 27th&nbsp;at 15:20 UTC and flew for just over one hour delivering this connectivity experience.<\/p>\n<p>Stellar Blu, has partnered with antenna technology provider <strong>Ball Aerospace<\/strong> to incorporate its electronically steered arrays (ESA) into the terminal solution. The new Stellar Blu platform, known as \u2018Sidewinder\u2019, will continue flight testing through the remainder of 2022, with a target for certification and availability in mid-2023. This maiden flight represented the culmination of several months\u2019 collaboration between Stellar Blu, OneWeb and Ball Aerospace including ground trials and flight tests.<\/p>\n<p>The test flight crew simultaneously demonstrated the ability to connect Teams calls, 4K YouTube streaming, <strong>Netflix<\/strong>, online VR gaming and <strong>Nintendo<\/strong> Switch gaming, among other structured performance tests. Maximum speeds of 260Mbps download\/80 upload and file transfer scenarios of 5GB demonstrated in approximately 20 seconds. All while operating at well under 100ms of network latency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis test flight represents a fantastic milestone for OneWeb. Broadband in-flight connectivity, delivered to a commercial aircraft via LEO satellites and an ESA is now \u2013 finally \u2013 a reality. Together with our partners Stellar Blu and technology from Ball Aerospace, we are now well and truly on our way to delivering consistently reliable, game-changing, affordable inflight connectivity to commercial aviation users everywhere,\u201d Ben Griffin, vice president Mobility, OneWeb said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OneWeb and Stellar Blu Solutions have delivered high-speed, low-latency inflight LEO satellite connectivity to a commercial airliner, the two companies announced June 14. This first test flight was conducted aboard a Boeing B777-200LR and took off from Fort Worth Alliance Airport (KAFW), in Texas on May 27th&nbsp;at 15:20 UTC and flew for just over one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55210,"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-55209","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\/55209"}],"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=55209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}