{"id":58946,"date":"2020-09-29T22:06:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thinkom-touts-benefits-of-interoperable-hybrid-antenna-solutions\/"},"modified":"2020-09-29T22:06:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:06:45","slug":"thinkom-touts-benefits-of-interoperable-hybrid-antenna-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thinkom-touts-benefits-of-interoperable-hybrid-antenna-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"ThinKom Touts Benefits of Interoperable Hybrid Antenna Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Antennas that function with satellites in both Geostationary Orbit (GEO) Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO) as a hybrid solution are essential for using the growing supply of satellite capacity in space, <strong>ThinKom<\/strong> CTO Billy Milroy said in a V<em>ia Satellite<\/em> webinar on Tuesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Milroy said ThinKom has verified that both its Ka-band ThinAir 2517 and Ku-band ThinAir 3030 airborne satellite antennas are interoperable between different orbits. The Ka-and 2517 VICTS (Variable Inclination Continuous Transverse Stub) antenna was tested on a Gulfstream III aircraft with <strong>SES<\/strong> satellites in both GEO and SES\u2019s O3b satellites in Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO). He said the antenna seamlessly roamed back and forth between GEO and MEO satellites, handed off MEO to MEO, and worked with applications running in the background. The antenna tracked LEO and MEO satellites and demonstrated 370+ Mbps forward link on <strong>Telesat <\/strong>LEO1.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Ku- band 3030 VICTS array system was tested with <strong>OneWeb<\/strong> satellites in LEO for both inter-satellite and intra-satellite beams. It demonstrated a forward link of greater than 350 Mbps and return link greater than 125 Mbps, with latencies less than 50 ms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ThinKom has demonstrated make-before-break and even full duplex two satellites simultaneously with both terminals. Milroy also said the antennas can do dual, simultaneous, make-before-break handoffs, but it adds cost and makes the system 20% larger.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said the high agility of ThinKom\u2019s antennas with independently pointable transmitter receivers can be exploited to use the best attributes of the orbits.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink about using the GEO satellite for the forward link, but use a MEO or LEO satellite for the return link. This allows you to cut the latency in half and actually exploit the best attributes of both to the relative merits on the return link, and the forward link. We\u2019re actually able to do that because these systems are very highly agile,\u201d Milroy said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Milroy said ThinKom doesn\u2019t see the value in a multi-band, Ku- and Ka-band combined array, because both bands are worldwide capable in GEO and NGSO systems and a multi-band array brings too much added weight, cost, and compromise in performance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no free lunch. To get Ku- and Ka- you have to do something, the radome is more challenged, we don\u2019t think it\u2019s worth it,\u201d Milroy said. \u201cWe think that folks who would buy a dual Ku-\/Ka- solution would eventually regret [it]. \u2026 We\u2019re an agnostic terminal supplier, they\u2019re both great. And if you pick one based on whatever its merits are, you\u2019ll be happy.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antennas that function with satellites in both Geostationary Orbit (GEO) Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO) as a hybrid solution are essential for using the growing supply of satellite capacity in space, ThinKom CTO Billy Milroy said in a Via Satellite webinar on Tuesday.&nbsp; Milroy said ThinKom has verified that both its Ka-band ThinAir 2517 and Ku-band ThinAir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58947,"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-58946","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\/58946"}],"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=58946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}