Internet on Airplanes!

Germany is busy working on Antenna Terminals for Satellite Communications.

The result...Internet-in-the-Sky

IMST and the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg unleashed a prototype of an electronically steerable antenna. This is a digital beamforming that can be used for satellite communication.

This cutting-edge innovation provides mobile satellite communication-they can steer it wherever it needs to go. Because it uses beams there are no mechanically moving parts. This is what they call Internet-in-the-Sky.

This is very interesting when you think that it could be used to deliver Internet capabilites to you while you are on an airplane!