Author: Frank Wolfe
March 8, 2019
Inmarsat is set to approve satellite communication rates for a new waveform, developed by Cobham last year, that promises to bolster significantly beyond-line-of-sight communications for helicopters in the air. Spinning rotors can drastically disrupt satcom signals, a signal degradation known as "rotor shadow" that leads to up to 40 percent packet loss for satcom data,…