Celestia Technologies Group UK Ltd (Celestia UK) has received a £2.5m R&D award from Scottish Enterprise, Scotland’s national economic development agency, to develop a fully electronic scanning antenna for use with satellite-based aircraft Wi-Fi applications.
CTG will use the R&D grant to develop a satellite antenna for aircraft to link with a communication satellite for the in-flight broadband sector, which is experiencing rapid growth.
For this project, CTG intends to develop a flat panel antenna incorporating multi-beam and phased-array technology, and to test and validate a full prototype as well as setting the basis for ulterior production. The proposed innovative design will be electronically steered and will offer improved communications and connectivity performance for a new generation of low and medium orbit satellites.
