Author: Woodrow Bellamy

Saudia is on track to start flying Airbus A321 aircraft upgraded with Falcon 300 terminals to enable Inmarsat‘s GX Aviation in-flight connectivity (IFC) service early next year. The Saudi Arabian...

Hawaiian Airlines is the first major airline to reach an agreement with SpaceX to add in-flight connectivity (IFC) service enabled by Starlink satellites to a fleet of Airbus and Boeing...

JSX, the California-based public charter operator, will become the first airline to operate aircraft using SpaceX’s Starlink satellites for in-flight connectivity (IFC) service. The company posted the announcement to its LinkedIn and Twitter accounts...

Engineers at California-based Global Eagle Entertainment recently completed network simulations evaluating the efficiency of their In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) terminal’s ability to operate over Telesat’s Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) network. According...

[Via Satellite 11-15-2016] California-based provider of global broadband services, ViaSat, has announced a new agreement to acquire aviation software solutions provider Arconics. The acquisition comes following recent years where Arconics...

[Via Satellite 09-21-2016] Kymeta, manufacturer of the meta-materials-based mTenna, has formed a new aviation partnership with antenna solutions supplier Tecom. The two companies will merge Kymeta’s flat-panel satellite antenna technology...

[Via Satellite 07-13-2016] Airbus and Boeing both released their 20-year global market forecasts on the first day of the 2016 Farnborough International Airshow. Airbus was less optimistic in it’s long term view of global demand for passenger...

[Via Satellite 06-21-2016] Vocality and RSA Engineering have completed a replacement of the obsolete satellite-based communications system used for Air Traffic Control (ATC) voice and data services throughout Brazilian airspace....

[Via Satellite 05-18-2016] Executives from Boeing and Inmarsat discussed future implications for connected aircraft operations during a panel discussion held at Honeywell‘s Deer Valley headquarters last week. Attendees, which were...

[Via Satellite 04-20-2016] SES and Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) announced further significant Ku-band capacity agreements to bring more In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) bandwidth to regions where air traffic is growing at...