July 30th 2025, 15:00 British Summer Time (BST) London. The market for passenger facilitation in airports is expected to be worth $15.8 billion in the 10-year period from 2024-2033. This is being driven by airport operators and their partners pursuing greater operational efficiency and excellence, with biometric and identity management increasingly playing a key role. Leading adopters…
As the race to dominate LEO accelerates, there are several key factors that could determine the future landscape: Network features such as timeliness, performance, capacity and market participation; Geopolitical tensions and availability; Space sustainability; and Funding. The first part to this series outlined geopolitical constraints facing LEO operators, while the second provided a deeper dive…
Introduction The energy market has been one of the key drivers of human progress over the last few centuries. With the discovery of oil and gas, both land-based and offshore wells have been surveyed, extracted, and processed. Extracting these natural resources offshore poses a number of challenges. Billions of dollars are invested in vessels, machinery,…
IFEC Market Tracker Update (Q1 2025) We recently released our Q1 2025 IFEC Tracker deliverables, which means it’s time for another deep dive. In this article we’ll take a look at IFEC-related activity in the Middle East, a region renowned for thought leadership, innovation and high standards. In this part of the world, we find…
Part Two in a Series on Geopolitics and Satellite Networks The re-election of Donald Trump in the U.S. has introduced some new geopolitical factors that have already begun to shape the coverage of LEO networks – particularly Starlink. The previous instalment of the series outlined the geopolitical barriers blocking Starlink and OneWeb from Russia and…
June 18th 2025, 15:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) According to a new first edition report by Valour Consultancy, ‘The Future of Connectivity in Rail – 2025’, the number of trains offering passenger Wi-Fi services onboard will rise to 37,000 by 2034, up from an estimated 12,000 today. Renowned as a challenging platform for connectivity because…
In major news this week, U.S. President Trump signed an executive order (EO) aimed at “Unleashing American Drone Dominance”, potentially turbocharging development of the wider advanced air mobility (AAM) market. However, in reading the order, and in speaking with the market at large when carrying out the research for our forthcoming report, “The Future of…
Part One in a Series on Geopolitics and Satellite Networks So, you’ve launched a satellite network. Now what? A crucial step – often overlooked outside the industry – is gaining the regulatory approval to operate in different countries. This has become more challenging in recent years due to intensifying geopolitical tensions which have caused governments…
We recently released the Q2 2025 update of data from our Maritime Connectivity Tracker, featuring new insights on Inmarsat’s NexusWave activations, Starlink deployments, Starlink Maritime revenues, offshore energy sub-segments, and annualised revenues per service provider. This service complements our flagship report, “The Future of Maritime Connectivity”. Valour Consultancy produces this tracker on a quarterly basis,…
Introduction Leaving aside the economic effects of the recent tariff impositions, there are also serious and complicated consequences for the logistics of maritime sailings. It would be remiss of Valour Consultancy not to comment on this development. This has been highlighted by the increase in cancelled sailings in the Transpacific, Transatlantic, and Asia-North Europe &…
Introduction The past decade has seen a surge in new ventures and investments in the maritime digitalisation space, particularly in data analytics and performance optimisation technologies. However, as the sector continues to mature, consolidation has become a key strategy, driven by the need to scale for profit generation and the increasing demand of the industry…
May 7th 2025, 16:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) London. According to a new report by Valour Consultancy, “Starlink Aviation: Deep Dive – 2025”, the satellite operator’s low-earth orbit (LEO) in-flight connectivity (IFC) service is set to grow the number of connected aircraft it serves from a few hundred today, to more than 10,000 by the…
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