{"id":81739,"date":"2013-01-09T00:32:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T16:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-hits-vr-12-vsat-antenna-shipping-milestone\/"},"modified":"2013-01-09T00:32:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T16:32:39","slug":"viasat-hits-vr-12-vsat-antenna-shipping-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-hits-vr-12-vsat-antenna-shipping-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"ViaSat Hits VR-12 VSAT Antenna Shipping Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ViaSat<\/strong> has shipped its 500th VR-12 Ku-band airborne ultra-small satcom antenna packaged together with its ArcLight technology, reaching and military and general aviation market milestone, the company announced Jan. 7. <br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The VR-12 serves aircraft that require a limited size, weight, and power of onboard communications equipment, while meeting advanced broadband satcom requirements for media-rich applications.    The VR-12 airframe systems also includes a \u201chatch-mount\u201d version \u2013 an integrated antenna system and radome package that drops into the escape hatch of a C-130 aircraft. Other installations include tail mounts for the PC-12 (U-28), commercial Gulfstream, and other planes, as well as a fuselage mount for government MC-12W aircraft. <br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;ViaSat Global Mobile Broadband General Manager Paul Baca said the ultra-small 30-centimeter aperture of the VR-12 bucks the trends for larger antenna designs. \u201cThe small VR-12 footprint has been a key to achieving so many successful Ku-band installations,\u201d Baca said in a statement. \u201cAs more Ka-band satellites become operational, we plan to offer a new VR-12 Ka antenna with an identical footprint as a new configuration option.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ViaSat has shipped its 500th VR-12 Ku-band airborne ultra-small satcom antenna packaged together with its ArcLight technology, reaching and military and general aviation market milestone, the company announced Jan. 7. &nbsp; &nbsp;The VR-12 serves aircraft that require a limited size, weight, and power of onboard communications equipment, while meeting advanced broadband satcom requirements for media-rich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-81739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81739"}],"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=81739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}