{"id":63768,"date":"2018-10-23T21:42:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T13:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/gilat-global-eagle-telesat-1st-to-demonstrate-leo-in-flight-connectivity\/"},"modified":"2018-10-23T21:42:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T13:42:49","slug":"gilat-global-eagle-telesat-1st-to-demonstrate-leo-in-flight-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/gilat-global-eagle-telesat-1st-to-demonstrate-leo-in-flight-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilat, Global Eagle, Telesat 1st to Demonstrate LEO In-Flight Connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gilat Satellite Networks<\/strong>, <strong>Global Eagle<\/strong>, and <strong>Telesat<\/strong> played a&nbsp;key role in the first demonstration of an in-flight aircraft communicating at broadband speeds with a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite system. The industry milestone was achieved using Global Eagle\u2019s Albatross Onetest aircraft with Gilat\u2019s aero modem and <strong>Telesat<\/strong>\u2018s Phase 1 LEO satellite, launched earlier this year. The testing included a successful demonstration of seamless connectivity and switchover between Telesat\u2019s Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and LEO satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Global Eagle is a provider of satellite-based broadband connectivity, television, and entertainment services, content and data analytics to aviation, maritime, enterprise, and government markets. \u201cGlobal Eagle is confident that Telesat\u2019s planned LEO constellation will fundamentally improve the passenger experience for in-flight broadband with industry-leading latency, throughput, and global coverage,\u201d said Global Eagle Executive Vice President (VP) Per Noren. \u201cWe chose to collaborate with Gilat on LEO baseband technology due to their proven multi-application platform and clear LEO roadmap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGilat\u2019s solution has now proved its technological advantage of supporting not only multiple applications, satellites, bands and beams, but also a world first transition between satellites in multiple orbits,\u201d said Gilat VP of Mobility and Global Accounts Ron Levin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gilat Satellite Networks, Global Eagle, and Telesat played a&nbsp;key role in the first demonstration of an in-flight aircraft communicating at broadband speeds with a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite system. The industry milestone was achieved using Global Eagle\u2019s Albatross Onetest aircraft with Gilat\u2019s aero modem and Telesat\u2018s Phase 1 LEO satellite, launched earlier this year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56396,"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-63768","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\/63768"}],"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=63768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}