Airbus Signs LEO Deal With China’s Spacesail

Airbus and Spacesail teams

Airbus has signed a deal with China’s Spacesail, operator of the Thousand Sails mega-constellation, to integrate its LEO connectivity into the HBC-plus inflight solution.

Credit: Airbus
Airbus will partner with China’s Spacesail, the Shanghai municipal government-backed operator of the Thousand Sails megaconstellation, to integrate the Chinese firm’s low-Earth-orbit (LEO) connectivity into Airbus’ High Bandwidth Connectivity (HBC)-plus inflight solution. The agreement, signed by...
Matthew Fulco

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