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Aviation

Offer home-like Wi-Fi everywhere you fly

Give passengers the freedom to stream, game, work, and share just like they would at home—from gate-to-gate, on all aircraft, and all routes.

Telesat Lightspeed goes above and beyond consumer-first LEO satellite networks to put your inflight connectivity (IFC) solution in a class of its own.

You have guaranteed, fibre-like LEO satellite services from pole-to-pole and scalable, concentrated capacity around airport hubs and busy flight routes.

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Not all LEO satellite networks are created equal

Do you know what to look for?

Download this Inflight Connectivity Buyer’s Guide to learn which key components matter

What will you do with superior inflight connectivity?

When Telesat Lightspeed powers your IFC solution, you don’t have to choose. You can have it all.
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Use Wi-Fi for the win

Promote the fact that your Wi-Fi is powered by Telesat Lightspeed, the LEO satellite network that really flies!

Global coverage. Always-on. Ultra-low latency.

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Build loyalty

Turn every flight into a five-star digital experience passengers will rave about to improve your Net Promoter Score.

Support the most demanding real-time, interactive, and cloud-based applications on every passenger device—simultaneously.

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Drive new revenue

Attract new advertisers.

Offer premium and personalized online services passengers are willing to pay for.

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Increase efficiency to cut costs

Empower ground and flight crews to collaborate in real time, all the time.

Now they can make smarter decisions, faster.

Protect your brand with enterprise-class connectivity

Telesat Lightspeed isn’t a best-effort LEO satellite network—it’s enterprise-class.
  • Always-on global coverage: Redundancies and path diversity mechanisms in space and on the ground protect against outages.
  • Guaranteed performance: Every Telesat Lightspeed service is backed by guarantees for data rates, latency, packet loss, jitter, and other factors that affect quality of experience.
  • Secure: Secure by Design network architecture aligns with major industry and government standards.
  • Live support: Your IFC provider has around-the-clock access to Telesat Lightspeed network experts.

Protect your investments with futureproof flexibility

Telesat Lightspeed will support flat panel antennas—including forward-compatible and multi-orbit antennas—from a range of innovative Ka-band antenna manufacturers. View user terminals 

Antenna designers including Viasat, ThinKom, and Qest have already announced plans to certify their antennas on the Telesat Lightspeed network.

Optimize

Choose the antenna size, weight, power, and cost profile that’s best for each aircraft.

Evolve

Upgrade to Telesat Lightspeed as soon as the network is in service.

Expand

Add superior LEO to your multi-orbit strategy without replacing antennas.

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