Astronics' Ku-band tail-mounted antenna technology successfully completed a test flight. The technology was used on a Collins Aerospace KuSAT-2000 satcom terminal for their LuxStream business jet connectivity solution. During the test flight, the KuSAT-2000 Tail-Mounted Antenna system reached download speeds of 25 Mbps in the U.S. and 15 Mbps globally, using SES satellites. Approximately 12…

Hughes announced this week that it will invest $50 million into OneWeb, joining the U.K. government and Bharti Enterprises in their acquisition of the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO)  constellation company.  Hughes has been a longtime partner of OneWeb and was also an investor through parent company EchoStar. Before OneWeb filed for Chapter 11 in March, Hughes…

This summer, Hughes Network Systems has conducted two tests of its HeloSat satellite communications system, and the company’s Defense Senior Director Wayne Marhefka tells Via Satellite these tests show the system is a production-ready, validated capability that will fill a need in helicopter communications.  “Hughes is really in the forefront of offering this system,” he…

  Representatives from Telesat and SpaceX dug into their companies’ plans for constellations in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and how they can provide backhaul in Via Satellite's Cell Backhaul Digital Week session  “The Low-Latency Constellation Battle to Connect Rural North America” on Thursday.  The two systems differ in the markets they plan to tackle first, and…