Novaspace: NGSOs Driving In-flight Connectivity Boom
The number of in-flight connectivity-equipped aircraft topped 38,000 last year and is expected to exceed 60,800 by 2033, Novaspace said Thursday. As aircraft operators shift from legacy geostationary orbit-based systems to non-geostationary orbit-based (NGSO) ones and hybrid services, bandwidth consumption…
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is rising, it said. Total leased capacity, 90 Gbps in 2023, is expected to reach 1.8 Tbps by 2033, it said. NGSO services such as SpaceX's Starlink and Eutelsat's OneWeb "are set to revolutionize in-flight connectivity" through greater bandwidth at lower capacity costs, Novaspace said.