Satellite Flat-Panel Market Being Driven by Aviation, NGSO Broadband, NSR Says

Cumulative flat-panel satellite antenna equipment sales are expected to reach $7.9 billion by 2027, Northern Sky Research said Wednesday. It said aeronautical equipment will be the chief driver of manufacturers' revenue, but fixed broadband applications on non-geostationary orbit satellites will be the chief, long-term volume market. It said cost and performance traditionally have been the biggest hurdles to deployment, but in-flight connectivity demand and NGSO beam steering are driving improvements in ground equipment technology. It said once prices drop, flat panels will better compete with parabolic antennas, leading to more adoption of them for fixed applications.