ThinKom Solutions, Inc. has announced that their phased-array antennas are fully interoperable with the next generation of LEO and MEO) networks, as well as GEO satellites.

ThinKom's ThinAir Falcon.

Agility tests have shown that the company’s antenna design achieves switching speeds of less than 800 ms. This has been determined by LEO and MEO service providers to be more than sufficient for beam switching among the fast-moving satellites with virtually no interruption in connectivity.
 
Bill Milroy,  the Chairman and CTO of ThinKom Solutions, said that the company’s patented phased-array architecture provides rapid switching speeds without the limitations of electronic scanning antennas in terms of instantaneous bandwidth, low-look-angle performance, power consumption and aperture efficiency. The new LEO and MEO satellite networks currently under development have the potential to disrupt the SATCOM market with inexpensive bandwidth and offer unique benefits in terms of latency, coverage, throughput and redundancy. ThinKom’s antenna technology has the versatility to support an integrated multi-constellation solution offering gap-free pole-to-pole coverage with automatic beam switching, rapid outage recovery and network optimization for different geographical regions.”
 
ThinKom’s antennas are field-proven with nearly 750 installed units currently flying over 3,000 flights per day. They have more than 2.5 million hours of accrued service time and are consistently achieving 98 percent availability rates. In addition, the extremely low-profile antenna radome virtually eliminates aerodynamic drag, dramatically reducing fuel usage when flying with the satcom antenna.

ThinKom will showcase its Ku- and Ka-band phased-array antenna technology at the 2018 Global Connected Aircraft Summit in San Diego, June 4-6. Milroy will speak in the Hardware and Technology panel on Tuesday afternoon, June 5.

An informative product video is available at this direct link...