{"id":64680,"date":"2018-07-12T22:20:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/inmarsats-swiftbroadband-successful-in-rpa-trans-atlantic-flight\/"},"modified":"2018-07-12T22:20:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:20:42","slug":"inmarsats-swiftbroadband-successful-in-rpa-trans-atlantic-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/inmarsats-swiftbroadband-successful-in-rpa-trans-atlantic-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmarsat\u2019s SwiftBroadband Successful in RPA Trans-Atlantic Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inmarsat Government<\/strong> has been boosted by the news that a <strong>General Atomics Aeronautical Systems<\/strong> (GA ASI) Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) flight test has successfully used SwiftBroadband, <strong>Inmarsat<\/strong>\u2019s L-band service. GA ASI-owned MQ-9B SkyGuardian RPA flew from the company\u2019s Flight Test and Training Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S., to the United Kingdom\u2019s Royal Air Force (RAF) Fairford base in Gloucestershire, U.K.<\/p>\n<p>The flight test was the first trans-Atlantic flight of a Medium Altitude, Long Endurance (MALE) RPA. SwiftBroadband eliminated the need for forward deployed ground infrastructure for command and control as well as takeoff and landing operations, an option not commonly available for RPA operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inmarsat Government has been boosted by the news that a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA ASI) Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) flight test has successfully used SwiftBroadband, Inmarsat\u2019s L-band service. GA ASI-owned MQ-9B SkyGuardian RPA flew from the company\u2019s Flight Test and Training Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S., to the United Kingdom\u2019s Royal Air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64681,"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-64680","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\/64680"}],"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=64680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}