{"id":59568,"date":"2020-06-09T19:33:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/hughes-transmits-live-hd-video-in-black-hawk-helicopter-demonstration\/"},"modified":"2020-06-09T19:33:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:33:26","slug":"hughes-transmits-live-hd-video-in-black-hawk-helicopter-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/hughes-transmits-live-hd-video-in-black-hawk-helicopter-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"Hughes Transmits Live, HD Video in Black Hawk Helicopter Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hughes Network Systems<\/strong> reports that its HeloSat satellite communications transmitted consistent, real-time, full-motion video from a Black Hawk helicopter during a recent in-flight demonstration. The HeloSat solution sent live, HD video from the cockpit, through the rotor blades, to a satellite and through to mission control within seconds as it surveilled a Tennessee landscape in a May 21 test, Hughes announced Tuesday. The HeloSat solution includes a Hughes HM series modem with proprietary through-the-rotor waveform, fuselage-mounted antenna and network management.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hughes Defense Senior Director Wayne Marhefka said customers as far away as Spain, India, and the United Arab Emirates watched the demonstration via livestream. Marhefka said the flight validates the solutions\u2019s ability to support Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), search and rescue, emergency response, and airborne command missions aboard rotary aircraft. Partners <strong>GetSat<\/strong>, <strong>DataPath<\/strong>, <strong>Applied Concept Group<\/strong>, <strong>Intelsat<\/strong>, and <strong>XP Services<\/strong>, contributed to the demonstration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout the 30-minute flight, HeloSat maintained the live-stream video feed \u2014 something I\u2019ve never experienced before on a rotary wing,\u201d said John Wellington, chief flight instructor of XP Services, and former 160th Special Operations Aviation Regimen flight lead, who piloted the Black Hawk for the demonstration. \u201cMaintaining connectivity for the duration of the mission is critical, because when it is time to go, you need to be ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hughes Network Systems reports that its HeloSat satellite communications transmitted consistent, real-time, full-motion video from a Black Hawk helicopter during a recent in-flight demonstration. The HeloSat solution sent live, HD video from the cockpit, through the rotor blades, to a satellite and through to mission control within seconds as it surveilled a Tennessee landscape in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59569,"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-59568","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\/59568"}],"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=59568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}