ThinKom Solutions is supplying its ThinAir Ka2517 aero satellite antennas to GDC Technics, in support of Inmarsat's GX terminal and associated inflight broadband services. The Ka2517 will serve as critical enabling technology underpinning Inmarsat's GX Aviation broadband satellite inflight connectivity (IFC) products, including the new GX+ North American IFC service announced by Inmarsat and Hughes Network Systems earlier in 2020.
The Ka2517 antenna is based on ThinKom's patented VICTS technology. VICTS antennas have accumulated over 18 million operational hours on more than 1,550 commercial aircraft, with a mean-time-between-failure (MTBF) of over 100,000 hours. GDC’s IFC terminals with ThinKom’s antennas have received a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) on Boeing B737-700 aircraft. GDC has planned a full range of STCs in early 2021 for the Airbus A320 family, additional B737 models, and Boeing B787 and B777 aircraft.
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