Lufthansa Technik and Hanwha Phasor collaborate on SatCom solutions

Satellite communications company Hanwha Phasor is to collaborate with Lufthansa Technik on a multi-year agreement that will see the latter design, build and supply several hundred fuselage-mounted airborne SatCom radomes each year. The development of Lufthansa Technik’s new radome will accommodate Hanwha Phasor’s electronically-steered antenna technology by employing new composite material combinations and design methods, resulting in one of the first aviation-certified radomes for this new type of antenna. The product is currently in the design phase and first radome prototypes could be built as soon as this summer, with series production set to commence in 2025. “Key advancements in antenna technology… require equally ingenuous advancements for the radomes that protect these antennas,” explained Harald Gloy, chief operations officer at Lufthansa Technik. “With our decades-long experience in the field, we will be one of the first to develop and produce an aviation-verified radome solution for the most modern phased-array antennas”.