Hughes and OneWeb working to fill military's Arctic communication gap
Hughes and OneWeb working to fill military’s Arctic communication gap May 6 The OneWeb gateway in Svalbard, Norway, capable of 10,000 hand-offs per second, is one of the gateways developed by Hughes that will orchestrate handover and tracking of gigabits of data for NORTHCOM. (OneWeb/Kongsberg Satellite Service) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force is teaming up with Hughes Network Systems and OneWeb to test how the latter’s new commercial broadband satellites could fill the military’s Arctic communications gap, the two companies announced May 5. The businesses will work with the Air...