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Article: EMS Technologies Successfully Demonstrates Performance of Low-profile X-Band Antenna over Paradigm's Skynet 5C Satellite.
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- Defense & Aerospace Week
- Article date:
- October 14, 2009
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EMS Defense & Space (D&S), a division of EMS Technologies, Inc. announced that it has successfully demonstrated high data-rate transmission of its new X-band satellite terminal over the UK military communications Skynet 5C satellite.
The EMS antenna supports airborne and ground-based communication-on-the-move applications on all of the major X-band constellations which are being used by the US and UK military services including Skynet 5. The antenna's low profile reduces the size of traditional radomes used for similarly capable X-band communications by more than half.
The demonstration was conducted in the UK with Paradigm, an EADS Astrium Services ...