Enjoy high-speed Internet access at an altitude of 10,000 meters

On the morning of August 20th, a China Eastern Airlines B777-300er wide-body aircraft took off from Shanghai Hongqiao Airport to Beijing Capital Airport.

This is a somewhat "special" flight. The MU5101 flight is different from other domestic flights equipped with air WIFI network signals. It is China's first commercial flight equipped with the latest KU-band high-throughput satellites that can experience high-speed Internet access in the air. In this flight, China Eastern Airlines adopted the Asia-Pacific 6D high-throughput communication satellite, combined with the airborne satellite communication solutions provided by project partners, and the system speed exceeded 220Mbps.

The Asia-Pacific 6D satellite is the world’s first high-throughput satellite designed for satellite aeronautical mobile services. It is also China’s first geostationary orbit high-throughput satellite that mainly uses KU frequency band communications. It represents the highest level of China’s geostationary orbit commercial communications satellite level. It has a total of 90 spot beams of different sizes and performances, which are customized for aviation design according to the density of the route.

Compared with the traditional satellite single beam covering the whole territory, it can achieve coverage with small-caliber beams in dense areas of airlines and services, and large-caliber beam coverage in areas with sparse services, which provides sufficient guarantee for the bandwidth of each aircraft under dense airlines. , So as to optimize the user experience.

On this flight, passengers who participated in the Asia-Pacific 6D satellite high-speed network commercial flight experience flight praised for enjoying high-speed Internet access at an altitude of 10,000 meters. "For the first time to experience high-altitude online chasing drama, this Internet speed is "Gang Kong Di"" "Successfully completed today's online video conference, like it" "It feels as fast as surfing the Internet at home"...

Approved by relevant national business authorities, on July 23, 2014, China Eastern Airlines and China Telecom jointly created the first satellite broadband air-to-ground interconnection commercial test flight in Mainland China to successfully complete the flight from Shanghai to Beijing. The first flight at that time was to use the Asia-Pacific Satellite VI and signals transmitted via the KU frequency band to achieve broadband Internet access in the air, which opened the prelude to the opening of air Internet services to civil aviation passengers. Since then, China Eastern Airlines, through continuous exploration in the field of in-flight Internet services, took the lead in completing the star map configuration and joint debugging tests of the Asia-Pacific 6D satellites for the entire fleet.

In 2020, satellite Internet will be included in the scope of "new infrastructure" for the first time. On December 16th of the same year, China Eastern Airlines, China Telecom and Juneyao Group jointly established Air-Ground Internet Technology Co., Ltd. to further focus on product innovation, technological innovation, and mechanism innovation, and start market-oriented operations to help the digital aviation industry.

China Eastern Airlines routes cover all international long-distance flights and domestic key business routes, and its "Air Connect" fleet size, number of flights, and number of users have all achieved "No. 1 in China and Leading in Asia." At present, China Eastern Airlines has actually put into operation a fleet of 96 aircraft with air-to-ground Internet service capabilities, including industry-leading A350, B787 and other star models, providing air Internet services for 8 million passengers on approximately 240,000 flights. .

According to reports, China Eastern Airlines will use the in-flight Internet to continuously meet the communication needs, social needs, shopping needs, entertainment needs, business needs, etc. Cabin scenes, use connectivity capabilities, accelerate the pace of upgrading the in-flight internet network and building smart cabins, and move from providing a single in-flight internet network service to an integrated aviation interconnection overall solution. (Reporter Cui Guoqiang)

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