{"id":67499,"date":"2017-08-15T22:28:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T14:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbit-expands-multi-purpose-satcom-terminal-for-helicopter-use\/"},"modified":"2017-08-15T22:28:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T14:28:20","slug":"orbit-expands-multi-purpose-satcom-terminal-for-helicopter-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbit-expands-multi-purpose-satcom-terminal-for-helicopter-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbit Expands Multi-Purpose Satcom Terminal for Helicopter Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Orbit Communications Systems<\/strong> intends to expand the development of its new Multi-Purpose Terminal (MPT) for airborne satcom to include helicopters. According to the company, a global provider of defense products and services placed an order valued at approximately $3 million for the delivery of helicopter systems between 2018 and 2022. This is the first time Orbit\u2019s new multipurpose terminal for airborne satcom will be developed for the rotary-wing platform.<\/p>\n<p>Built to Military Standard (MIL-STD), the 30-cm antenna will deliver data communications via satellite to a range of military helicopters. Orbit specifically designed the system overcome the challenges posed by helicopter installations, such as constant vibration and the need for a self-cooling mechanism when placed behind the exhaust systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur decision to extend the development of our multi-purpose terminals to helicopters was prompted by market demand,\u201d said Eitan Livneh, CEO of Orbit. \u201cTime to market is a key factor and our ability to tailor our technology to customer needs is proving to be a very attractive and marketable commodity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This story was originally published in Rotor &amp; Wing International, a Via Satellite sister publication. It has been edited to better serve our audience.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orbit Communications Systems intends to expand the development of its new Multi-Purpose Terminal (MPT) for airborne satcom to include helicopters. According to the company, a global provider of defense products and services placed an order valued at approximately $3 million for the delivery of helicopter systems between 2018 and 2022. This is the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57418,"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-67499","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\/67499"}],"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=67499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}