{"id":136439,"date":"2025-11-15T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/136439\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:48:11","slug":"emirates-to-put-starlink-on-aircraft-in-major-win-for-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/136439\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates to Put Starlink on Aircraft in Major Win for SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/US:Equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Emirates<\/a> is planning to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/711339Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">SpaceX<\/a>\u2019s Starlink to upgrade the onboard Wi-Fi in its fleet, according to people familiar with the matter, even though the service isn\u2019t currently approved by the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Dubai-based airline \u2014 the world\u2019s most profitable \u2014 has a widebody fleet of about 250 jets and more than 300 on order from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/BA:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Boeing Co.<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/AIR:FP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Airbus SE<\/a>. The agreement is set to be announced at the Dubai Air Show starting Monday, the people said, asking not to be identified because the negotiations are private.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emirates is planning to use SpaceX\u2019s Starlink to upgrade the onboard Wi-Fi in its fleet, according to people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[71341,642,41908,15583,19982,266,111,139,69,7254,7917,3703,147,392,145,4418],"class_list":["post-136439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-airbus-se","tag-august","tag-boeing-co-the","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-government","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-policy","tag-qatar","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-science","tag-space","tag-technology","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}