Canadian satellite operator Telesat will use ThinKom's Ka2517 aeronautical antennas to connect aircraft with its upcoming Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite broadband service, under the terms of a strategic agreement the two companies announced Wednesday. ThinKom and Telesat will work together to integrate
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ThinKom’s new Q- and V-band terminals designed for operation on next-generation satellites. Photo: ThinKom
ThinKom Solutions is developing a new phased-array user terminal designed to operate in higher millimeter-wave frequency bands to work with next-generation satellite constellations in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO). The terminal, announced July 13, will operate in the Q- and V-band frequencies.
The Electronically Scanned Arrays (ESAs) will be offered in configurations for aeronautical and ground-based fixed and mobile applications. It will be based on ThinKom’s patented VICTS (Variable Inclination Continuous Transverse Stub) technology, and the company said it has built and tested similar Q-band antennas.
ThinKom to supply satellite terminals for US Army’s ABCT COTM pilot 21 Apr 2021 (Last Updated April 21st, 2021 11:36)
ThinKom Solutions has been contracted to supply phased-array satellite terminals for the US Army’s Armored Brigade Combat Teams (ABCT) communications-on-the-move (COTM) pilot programme.
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ThinSat 300 COTM Antenna. Credit: ThinKom Solutions, Inc.
ThinKom Solutions has been contracted to supply phased-array satellite terminals for the US Army’s Armored Brigade Combat Teams (ABCT) communications-on-the-move (COTM) pilot programme.
The company said that the ABCT COTM solution will integrate improved ‘mobile network solutions directly onto select vehicles’.
This integration is to make command posts ‘more expeditionary’ and help retain network connectivity across the battlespace.
ThinKom Completes Successful Over-The-Air Tests With K/Q-Band Phased-Array Multi-Beam Antenna On Protected Comms Satellite
ThinKom Solutions, Inc., recently completed successful over-the-air tests of a pair of 17-inch active diameter K/Q-band phased-array antennas communicating through an Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite.
The tests verified that the antenna, based on ThinKom’s patented Variable Inclination Continuous Transverse Stub (VICTS) architecture, meets or exceeds all performance metrics for operating effectively with the frequency-hopping waveform of the AEHF protected communications satellite network.
A broad range of uplink and downlink communication plans and modes were tested on an operational K/Q-band satellite, exercising full 1 GHz and 2 GHz “hopped” bandwidths. The VICTS antennas successfully acquired, tracked, logged on and joined downlink and uplink services in all cases at elevation angles from 24 to 73 degrees.