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Telesat taps Thales to manufacture LEO satellites for Lightspeed

Canadian satellite operator Telesat has selected Thales Alenia Space as the prime manufacturer of its global LEO constellation, which will c... Continue Reading

Streaming Mobile Apps on a smartphone, including Hulu, YouTube and Netflix

Panasonic conducts full streaming Internet trials with airlines

Panasonic Avionics has conducted “full streaming” onboard Internet trials with undisclosed airlines after upgrading its customers’ air... Continue Reading

Viasat remains bullish on IFC; says ViaSat-3 launch delayed by COVID

Viasat is now eyeing an early calendar year 2022 launch of its first ViaSat-3 satellite, after experiencing program delays due to the COVID-... Continue Reading

Qatar Airways aircraft inflight in a clear sky.

Qatar Airways upgrading legacy IFE on 787-8s with Thales AVANT

Qatar Airways is upgrading the legacy Thales TopSeries inflight entertainment systems on its Boeing 787-8 twinjets with the latest generatio... Continue Reading

Op-Ed: How do you solve a problem like Air India?

Air India, India’s national carrier, has a long and complicated history littered with missteps, failures, and some successes. Its current si... Continue Reading

A head-on view of the JetBlue Mint cabin

JetBlue’s new Mint, new route, give new reasons to shout

Last year at this time, a JetBlue flight was practically a carnival in the clouds. Whatever you wanted to drink, eat or watch could be done,... Continue Reading

A top down view of the Jamco Vantage Pristine seat, with sparkling white and light grey seat accents emphasizing the antimicrobial aspects of the seat

Jamco reveals new antimicrobial seat, Venture Pristine

If the aircraft interiors story of 2020 was figuring out how to get aircraft clean, the story of 2021 seems set to be designing cleanliness ... Continue Reading

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IAMA recommends airlines price options as airframers enter W-IFE

Airbus and Boeing late last year separately announced plans to play a more meaningful role in bringing wireless entertainment to aircraft. W... Continue Reading

The entrance to an A320, with the airframer's signature Airspace cabin, including LED lights and projected designs on the ceiling

Beyond seats: getting the new longhaul narrowbody cabins right

Longhaul narrowbody aircraft like the Airbus A321neo’s LR and XLR variants are going to be key to the COVID-19 recovery — and to future rout... Continue Reading

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Press Release: Gilat’s ESA successfully demoed over Inmarsat GX

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd., a worldwide leader in satellite networking technology, solutions and services, announces the successful test ... Continue Reading

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Hughes sees big aero capacity opportunities in the Americas

If airlines adopt free or “freemium” inflight connectivity models for their passengers, as many are expected to do, the amount of satellite ... Continue Reading

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Panasonic Avionics to focus on aviation as it sells ITC Global

Inflight entertainment and connectivity giant Panasonic Avionics is pulling out of the maritime, energy and enterprise satellite communicati... Continue Reading

Two software-defined OneSat satellites in orbit, with an image of earth alongside them

Software-defined network part of Intelsat plan for aero

Intelsat is evolving towards software-defined, reconfigurable satellite assets that will allow the company to direct high-throughput capacit... Continue Reading

All of the contents of the new amenity kit spread out on the hard surface of the Mint seat.

Wanderfuel makes wellness addition to JetBlue Mint cabin

A refreshed first class or business class cabin always drew attentive excitement in the carefree days of aviation, but now as the pandemic s... Continue Reading

The first of Inmarsat’s I-6 satellites, I-6F1, which carries both L-band and Ka-band payloads, so is also known as GX6A, enters thermal vacuum testing in Toulouse, France. Manufactured in the UK and assembled in France, I-6F1 undergoes this test to simulate the harsh space environment prior to launch in H2 2021. [Credit: Inmarsat/Airbus Defence and Space] H-IIA

Inmarsat readies for most ambitious tech roadmap in its history

Celebrating the fifth anniversary of its Global Xpress (GX) Ka-band network, Inmarsat is gearing up for the launch of four new GX payloads a... Continue Reading