[SatNews] Niagara Thermal Products has been selected by ViaSat Inc. as a key process technology supplier to bring next generation Ka-band satellite technology and architecture to the aerospace market.
ViaSat's new technology, which enhances its award-winning Exede® Internet service, is expected to significantly improve the speed and availability of broadband services over a greatly expanded coverage area. Drawing upon more than 25 years of product and process engineering experience in high performance vacuum-brazed products produced in its AS9100C certified facility, Niagara Thermal Products has developed proprietary braze process technology that is critical to the performance of new ViaSat products.
"We are extremely pleased that we have been able to assist ViaSat in the development and introduction of this exciting improvement in broadband capabilities for the aerospace market," said Mark Parisi, Vice President of Business and New Product Development for Niagara. "While not directly in our mainstream thermal technology area of heat exchangers, heat sinks and cold plates, this technology development is another example of Niagara Thermal Product's commitment to providing important solutions for difficult challenges in the aerospace industry."

