{"id":63879,"date":"2018-10-09T19:59:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T11:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/xtar-happy-with-results-of-recent-sotm-demonstration\/"},"modified":"2018-10-09T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T11:59:12","slug":"xtar-happy-with-results-of-recent-sotm-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/xtar-happy-with-results-of-recent-sotm-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"XTAR Happy With Results of Recent SOTM Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>XTAR<\/strong> has announced the results of a key demonstration, which was designed provide a SATCOM on the move (SOTM) data link from a SOTM terminal to a hub earth station at a data rate greater than 25 Mbps. The demonstration took place in July of this year. XTAR announced the results today.<\/p>\n<p>A 26 Mbps satellite link was achieved between the terminal and a fixed 3.9m ground station. A 2 Mbps data link was transmitted from the fixed ground terminal to the SOTM terminal. The required space segment for the demonstration was 38.2 MHz with bandwidth efficiency of 0.73 bits\/Hz, which is considered exceptionally high performance for a terminal of this size. As heavy rain began to fall, the satellite link held strong, according to XTAR.<\/p>\n<p>The goal was to show that high data rates can be achieved from small SOTM terminals without the use of High Throughput Satellites. For the demonstration XTAR partnered with <strong>Honeywell, Leidos<\/strong> and <strong>Newtec.&nbsp;<\/strong>XTAR used Honeywell\u2019s Wavestorm AS-X, which is a low profile slot array antenna, suitable for either airborne or ground-based applications. The satellite used for this demonstration was the XTAR-LANT satellite located at 30 degrees West longitude. XTAR-LANT is an X-band satellite, compatible with WGS terminals, with both global and spot beams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XTAR has announced the results of a key demonstration, which was designed provide a SATCOM on the move (SOTM) data link from a SOTM terminal to a hub earth station at a data rate greater than 25 Mbps. The demonstration took place in July of this year. XTAR announced the results today. A 26 Mbps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63880,"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-63879","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\/63879"}],"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=63879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}