
Hughes Network Systems reports that its HeloSat satellite communications transmitted consistent, real-time, full-motion video from a Black Hawk helicopter during a recent in-flight demonstration. The HeloSat solution sent live, HD video from the cockpit, through the rotor blades, to a satellite and through to mission control within seconds as it surveilled a Tennessee landscape in a May 21 test, Hughes announced Tuesday. The HeloSat solution includes a Hughes HM series modem with proprietary through-the-rotor waveform, fuselage-mounted antenna and network management. Hughes…