{"id":58516,"date":"2020-12-05T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T16:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thinkom-supplies-antennas-to-gdc-technics-for-inmarsats-gx-aviation-ifc\/"},"modified":"2020-12-05T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T16:46:08","slug":"thinkom-supplies-antennas-to-gdc-technics-for-inmarsats-gx-aviation-ifc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thinkom-supplies-antennas-to-gdc-technics-for-inmarsats-gx-aviation-ifc\/","title":{"rendered":"ThinKom Supplies Antennas to GDC Technics for Inmarsat\u2019s GX Aviation IFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ThinKom Solutions<\/strong>&nbsp;is supplying its ThinAir Ka2517 aero satellite antennas to GDC Technics, the company revealed Thursday.&nbsp;The Ka2517 antenna will be used to enable <strong>Inmarsat<\/strong>\u2019s GX Aviation broadband satellite In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) solutions, including the new GX+ North American IFC service announced by Inmarsat and Hughes Network Systems earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Ka2517 antenna is based on ThinKom\u2019s Variable iInclination Continuous Transverse Stub (VICTS) technology. VICTS antennas have been used for 18 million operational hours on more than 1,550 commercial aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>GDC\u2019s next-generation IFC terminals with ThinKom\u2019s antennas have received a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) on <strong>Boeing<\/strong> B737-700 aircraft. GDC has planned for more STCs in early 2021 for the <strong>Airbus<\/strong> A320 family, additional B737 models, and Boeing B787 and B777 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ka2517 antenna fully complies with new regulatory requirements, including WRC-19 EISM and ITU Article 22, ensuring non-interference with terrestrial 5G cellular networks or with Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellites when being used on Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO networks),\u201d said Bill Milroy, chairman and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of ThinKom Solutions. \u201cIt also offers the switching speeds and agility to interoperate seamlessly with new multi-layered GEO, Highly-Elliptical Orbit (HEO) and NGSO satellite networks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThinKom Solutions&nbsp;is supplying its ThinAir Ka2517 aero satellite antennas to GDC Technics, the company revealed Thursday.&nbsp;The Ka2517 antenna will be used to enable Inmarsat\u2019s GX Aviation broadband satellite In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) solutions, including the new GX+ North American IFC service announced by Inmarsat and Hughes Network Systems earlier this year. The Ka2517 antenna is based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58517,"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-58516","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\/58516"}],"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=58516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}