Iridium Communications signed a five-year commercial contract with L3Harris Technologies for the Iridium Satellite Time and Location (STL) service. Iridium signed the agreement on April 9. Under the agreement, Iridium will provide the STL service to more than three dozen L3Harris communications network nodes and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) facilities throughout the U.S.  L3Harris’s private…

Gilat Satellite Networks has made further inroads into the lucrative In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) market. It has won a multi-million dollar order from an unnamed IFC service provider to provide its Taurus Aero modems. Gilat announced the deal, April 8. Taurus is a modem solution for IFC already deployed globally across tens of commercial airlines. Taurus…

Gogo Business Aviation is partnering with Atlas Air Service AG to develop a European Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the Gogo Galileo HDX antenna. The STC modifications will be applied to the Cessna CitationJet series of light jet aircraft and the Embraer Phenom 300. Gogo Galileo is the in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution for business aircraft…

Latvia’s flag carrier airBaltic is testing SpaceX’s Starlink internet, with plans to equip its entire Airbus A220-300 fleet with the in-flight connectivity (IFC) system. airBaltic announced March 28 that it conducted an initial ground test of SpaceX’s Starlink internet connectivity system onboard an aircraft in Riga, Latvia, with a full cabin of airBaltic and Starlink…