Elon Musk Starlink signs the first In-Flight Wi-Fi deal with Jet Service JSX under which SpaceX will receive wireless internet. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been in talks for months with airlines to provide Starlink Internet in-flight.

Highlights

Deal signed with SpaceX and semi-private jet service JSX
SpaceX has launched some 2,000 Starlink satellites to Low-Earth Orbit
SpaceX asked a regulatory approval from the US FCC

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SpaceX is making a deal with an air carrier to provide In-flight wireless Internet using the Starlink satellite network, the company said on Thursday as it jockeys with other burgeoning satellite firms to put high-speed Internet on commercial airlines.

Tesla’s Chief Executive Elon Musk is the owner of the Space Agency Starlink. Musk has been in talks for months with airlines to provide Starlink Internet in-flight, a key prong in SpaceX’s strategy to scoop up enterprises’ customers beyond consumers and households in rural areas of the globe with little to no Internet access.

The deal is with the renowned semi-private jet service JSX and involves equipping 100 airplanes with Starlink terminals, the chartered company said in a statement that the Starlink-connected plane taking flight by year’s end, further the spokesperson declined to disclose the value of the partnership.

Space agency SpaceX has launched some 2,000 Starlink to low-Earth orbit since 2019 and, still, the network is not available fully, offers broadband Internet service to thousands of customers in a handful of Gulfstream jets, as well as military aircraft.

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