Inmarsat revealed that Direction des Services de la navigation aérienne (DSNA), France’s primary Air Navigation Services Provider (ANSP), signed an agreement to join a consortium of European ANSPs supporting the modernization of Air Traffic Management (ATM) over Europe through the Iris program. In partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), Inmarsat is leading the Iris program,…

ThinKom Solutions revealed a new solution for land-based gateways, designed to accommodate current and next generation Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite constellations. The new gateway concept, which ThinKom describes as an “array of arrays,” provides an alternative to the large “antenna farms” of parabolic dishes currently used for support of Geostationary Orbit…

Seakr Engineering was granted a Canadian patent for an advanced Radio Frequency (RF) processing Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) technology. Seakr's Canadian patent CA 2,953,837 "Integrated Mixed-Signal ASIC with Analog Digital Converter (ADC), Digital Analog Converter (DAC) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP)" marks the firm's fourth patent received globally for its ASIC technology targeted at…

JetBlue selected the Viasat In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) system for the airline's new fleet of 70 Airbus A220-300 aircraft — for delivery beginning in 2020, with the option for 50 additional aircraft.  JetBlue and Viasat first launched the Viasat-powered Fly-Fi in-flight Wi-Fi service in December 2013. JetBlue's new Airbus A220-300 aircraft will be outfitted with Viasat's…