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At AIX on 2025, April 08 Airbus quietly removed Viasat’s Global Xpress from its HBCplus offering. The company signed provisional agreements with Amazon Project Kuiper and Hughes to chase promised low-latency service while ThinKom’s plug-and-play antenna stayed as the approved terminal for modular connectivity.

Airbus Ditches Viasat for the Next Shiny Satellite Toy

In a move that shocked exactly-no-one-paying-attention, Airbus tool the AIX stage to soft-cancel

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