PARIS — SpaceX nearly doubled its backlog of Starlink in-flight Wi-Fi orders with last week’s United Airlines deal, a company director said Tuesday.
“Very excited that we have about 2,500 aircraft under contract now, bringing what was effectively a startup to now what we think is a growing experience that’s going to resonate with all the passengers and the airlines worldwide,” Nick Galano, SpaceX director of Starlink aviation sales and partnerships, said during a panel at the World Space Business Week conference in Paris. The satellite internet arm of Elon Musk’s space company is pushing into the in-flight connectivity, or IFC, market.
” SpaceX continues to increase that capacity as well, launching rockets carrying new Starlink satellites about every three days on average this year, according to the company. Galano also emphasized that SpaceX is trying to reduce the time it takes to install new antennas on aircraft. Known as retrofitting, the process is a pain point for airlines that requires taking aircraft out of active service for days at a time in order to upgrade or replace a satellite communications system.
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