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Space

Air Force Demos Comms Between FAB-T and Milstar

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Monday, February 28th, 2011

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The Air Force has successfully demonstrated over-the-air, low-data-rate communication between an orbiting Milstar satellite and the Family of Advanced Beyond line-of-sight Terminal (FAB-T), the service announced recently. The Jan. 26 demonstration included a series of uplink and downlink communication tests that involved passing voice and data communication between a third-generation (Block 8) FAB-T unit and the legacy Milstar satellite, according to an Air Force press release. The FAB-T unit used its low-data-rate software to transmit through its newly developed large…

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