The company said the complete aXiom system, including on-board hardware, ground infrastructure, space segment and network management and monitoring, has been operational in-theater in Afghanistan since April. SNC is under contract with Lockheed Martin, which is supplying the aXiom 7300 to the U.S. military for use on their airborne ISR fleet.

   Tachyon integrated the aXiom 9300 terminal with an embedded iDirect satellite router board, an 18-inch Ku- band mobile satellite antenna subsystem and an Inertial Reference Unit (IRU). In addition, Tachyon acquired space segment capacity and built ground infrastructure in theater to meet U.S. Military needs.

   “Tachyon’s advanced services allow real-time delivery of mission critical information, including full-motion video, from aircraft to NetOps and troops on the ground. The end user customer has told us that the video they are seeing through aXiom is the best available on current systems,” SNC Vice President Ken Puckett said in a statement.