Carol Collins
Raytheon Technologies' Collins Aerospace business has completed a data transfer test between its high gain antenna for a global broadband service offering and an Iridium satellite in orbit.
Collins Aerospace said Monday it achieved the second milestone in ongoing work on Iridium Certus airborne satellite communications equipment following a similar demonstration of its active low gain antenna in August of last year.
HGA and ALGA are designed to facilitate L-band connectivity for aviation customers worldwide once the new systems become available in 2022.
According to Collins Aerospace, its new technology offering will include the antennas, a satcom data unit and an SDU configuration module.
The Iridium Certus service went live in January 2019 to support government, maritime, aviation, land mobile and internet of things applications.
