Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Phasor‘s ESA technology will enter ground testing later this year, with hopes of getting airborne by Q1 2024.
If that sounds familiar, perhaps that’s because we’ve been hearing a similar story for several years now, at least as far back as 2016. But since the sale to Hanwha in 2020, things took a bit of a reset. After a somewhat tepid presentation of the system at Satellite 2022, Hanwha brought a full scale mockup to this year’s event, demonstrating a commitment to the aero market.
As with several other ESA vendors exhibiting at Satellite 2023, Hanwha highlighted the flexibility and scalability of its solution. Adjusting the size of the system is table stakes at this point. Hanwha meets that criteria, with the ability to scale the number of sent and receive tiles in the assembly.
Beyond that, VP Business Development Michael Young specifically called attention to the ability for the system to support full and half-duplex connections simultaneously. He also noted support for multiple modems on a single assembly, at least in theory. That would depend on the modem makers to support it, but Young sees the potential for multi-orbit, multi-constellation support without too much trouble.
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