{"id":60888,"date":"2019-12-17T21:24:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T13:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/gilats-esa-terminal-demonstrates-in-flight-operation-on-commercial-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T21:24:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T13:24:54","slug":"gilats-esa-terminal-demonstrates-in-flight-operation-on-commercial-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/gilats-esa-terminal-demonstrates-in-flight-operation-on-commercial-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilat\u2019s ESA Terminal Demonstrates In-Flight Operation on Commercial Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Gilat Satellite Networks <\/b>revealed&nbsp;Tuesday that its In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) Electronically Steered Antenna (ESA) is the first-ever to operate during flight on a commercial aircraft. The operation occurred onboard <b>Honeywell<\/b>\u2018s Boeing 757 test aircraft with Gilat\u2019s ESA terminal operating over Ka-band capacity on<b> Telesat<\/b>\u2018s Telstar 19 Vantage High Throughput Satellite (HTS).<\/p>\n<p>Gilat\u2019s ESA has no moving parts, full electronic beam steering, and a flat panel with a low profile. The company says the ESA terminal can serve both Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO) constellations that operate in Ka-band and it features Gilat\u2019s aero modem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTelesat is pleased to join forces with [Gilat] in achieving an additional remarkable milestone,\u201d Michel Forest, Telesat director of systems engineering for the LEO Program said. \u201cGilat\u2019s ESA innovations demonstrate the ability to access and unleash the throughput and performance of Ka-band HTS beams with a low-profile antenna as desired by airlines.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gilat Satellite Networks revealed&nbsp;Tuesday that its In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) Electronically Steered Antenna (ESA) is the first-ever to operate during flight on a commercial aircraft. The operation occurred onboard Honeywell\u2018s Boeing 757 test aircraft with Gilat\u2019s ESA terminal operating over Ka-band capacity on Telesat\u2018s Telstar 19 Vantage High Throughput Satellite (HTS). Gilat\u2019s ESA has no moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60890,"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-60888","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\/60888"}],"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=60888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}