Defense technology company Perspecta says that its research arm, Perspecta Labs, has successfully demonstrated the use of a commercial LTE air-to-ground network for long-distance, high-bandwidth communications with aircraft at “well beyond Mach 1 speeds.”
The company says it has developed a solution that will allow the use of commercial, off-the-shelf LTE technology “to deliver high-bandwidth data communications at supersonic aircraft speeds,” which it recently successfully tested at Edwards Air Force Base as part of the Department of Defense (DOD) Cellular Range Telemetry Network (CeRTN) program in collaboration with the DOD Test Resource Management Center.
