Privileged to participate in an aero antenna workshop alongside several premier airlines at the APEX (Airline Passenger Experience Association)’s TECH conference in February, RGN learned that recent GEO satellite anomalies have been a wake-up call for operators, adding weight to the ‘resiliency’ argument behind hybrid multi-orbit IFC adoption. Under the specter of these challenges, a growing contingent of airlines are now eager for the ‘holy grail’ of antennas to come to market, something that is multi-orbit, multi-constellation, low weight, low latency, high throughput, low cost, and simple to install, as revealed at the conference in Los Angeles. In short, they want something with staying power that can talk to here-and-now satellites and future constellations in various orbits. ThinKom Solutions, Inc. is offering solutions for airlines to 'unstick' themselves from inflexible IFC antenna hardware to avail of LEO/MEO/GEO/HEO services, as chairman and CTO William (Bill) Milroy explained. "If you are in favor of being unsticky we want to do our best to unstick you."
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