Gilat Honeywell test flight Feb 2020

As part of its Q4 and Full Year 2019 results announcement, Gilat has announced it has discontinued its Gilat’s tail-mount Ku-band antenna project, which saw the company enter the business aviation market with a Tier-1 business aviation service provider.

Gilat will instead refocus on other opportunities that the significant growth in the IFC terminal market offers.

This included the recent demonstration of high performance and instantaneous multi-orbit LEO-GEO switchover between Telesat’s satellites over Ka-band capacity onboard Honeywell’s Boeing 757 commercial test aircraft.

In late January, Gilat agreed to a US$532.5 million takeover from Comtech Telecommunications Corp.

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