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ThinKom’s ThinAir Ka2517 airborne satcom terminal completed demonstrations over SES’s Medium Earth Orbit and Geostationary satellite networks during testing at ThinKom’s Hawthorne, California facilities and on an aircraft in Mojave, California.
The ThinKom ThinAir Ka2517 antenna supports full commercial Ka-band and mil-Ka band satellites with forward link frequencies of 17.7–21.2 GHz and return link frequencies of 27.5–31 GHz.
Initial flights of the Triton flying test bed with the ThinKom Ka2517 antenna are expected to take place in the second quarter of 2022.
The ThinSat Ka500 utilizes ThinKom’s field-proven VICTS phased-array architecture with operational heritage on thousands of aero and land-mobile platforms worldwide.
ThinKom showcased the ThinSat Ka500 and other satellite antenna solutions at the SATELLITE 2022 exhibition and conference in Washington, D.C., in Booth 531 on 2022-03-21-24, 2022.
Inmarsat developed a next‑generation inflight terminal with GDC Advanced Technology featuring GDC’s dual modem manager (MODMAN) with components by Kontron and a flat panel antenna by ThinKom.
The GX Aviation next-generation terminal uses a robust flat panel antenna developed by Thinkom.
ThinKom’s VICTS platform has been field-proven with thousands of units deployed in aero, land, and maritime mobile environments totaling more than 23 million cumulative hours of service.
Based on ThinKom Ka2517 antenna performance and Telesat’s Lightspeed LEO network, uplink speeds are expected to reach up to 200 Mbps to a single aircraft.
ThinKom expects hundreds of Ka-band aero Ka2517 antennas to be operating on GEO satellites when the Telesat Lightspeed network is ready to support commercial service.
Based on ThinKom Ka2517 antenna performance and Telesat’s Lightspeed LEO network, downlink speeds are expected to reach up to 830 Mbps to a single aircraft.
ThinKom’s new antenna will operate in the Q-band (37.5–42.5 GHz) and the V-band (47.2–51.4 GHz).
The ThinKom system is designed to work with a full range of modems and networks and provides interoperability options with current and next-generation geostationary and low earth orbit satellite systems.
General Dynamics Mission Systems acquired ThinKom ThinSat 300 vehicular satellite antennas for testing as a design option for mounting on command-post vehicles in armor formations.
ThinKom provided three ThinSat 300 antennas as a subcontractor as part of the Army’s contract award to General Dynamics to support integration, engineering, and fielding services for the ABCT COTM experimentation effort.
SES demonstrated switching between MEO and GEO satellites on 2019-10-23 on a flight from Florida to Nicaragua using Thales FlytLIVE, a Hughes Network Systems modem, and a ThinKom phased array antenna.
Companies including Isotropic Systems, ThinKom, Alcan Systems, and C-Com are developing flat-panel antenna models with target prices ranging from around $10,000 to under $1,000 depending on application.
A ThinKom ThinAir Ka2517 phased-array antenna mounted on Scaled Composites’ Proteus high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft demonstrated a 25 Mbps downlink and a 5 Mbps uplink at an altitude of more than 15,0 m.
ThinKom Solutions sells phased-array antennas for aircraft and motor vehicles that work with existing geostationary satellites and are compatible with future low and medium Earth orbit constellations.
ThinKom’s aeronautical antenna tested with SES is 0.2 m thick and uses mechanical systems to track satellites.