PRESS RELEASE: PLANES, VEHICLES & VESSELS EMBRACE LEO CONNECTIVITY WITH FLAT PANEL ANTENNA SHIPMENTS PROJECTED TO REACH HALF A MILLION BY 2035

Aviation, Maritime, Mobility, Press Releases

London, April 15th, 2026, 11:00 British Summer Time (BST)  Flat panel antennas are moving firmly into the mainstream, with shipments across aviation, land mobility and maritime projected to approach half a million units by 2035, according to Valour Consultancy’s new report titled ‘The Future of Flat Panel Antennas – 2026’.      The company’s previous analysis, published in 2023, projected flat panel shipments to reach…

Key Headlines from Valour Consultancy’s Report on The Future of Autonomous Maritime Vessels – 2026 Edition (Preliminary Data)

Industry News, Maritime

With Valour Consultancy’s Future of Autonomous Maritime Vessels – 2026 Edition nearing release, preliminary findings have been shared with early purchasers and programme participants. The updated data provides valuable insight into the evolving maritime autonomy landscape.  The study examines vessel volumes across the International Maritime Organization’s IMO four degrees of autonomy, alongside key enabling subsystems. Valour Consultancy categorises autonomous maritime technologies…

Dead Ringers

Maritime

INTRODUCTION Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a tool using Data Enhanced Algorithmically Developed (DEAD) computing. The original algorithms are developed by humans and, if sufficiently sophisticated, they can allow an AI program to develop further algorithms (a set of instructions to be followed in calculations or other operations) based on vast data arrays made available to…

Amazon Leo & Starlink: Q1 2026 Maritime Market Update on LEO VSAT Services

Industry News, Maritime

Latest News of Amazon Leo Amazon’s LEO programme has been known to the market for years as “Project Kuiper”. That era is over. In November 2025, Amazon formally rebranded the initiative as Amazon Leo, framing it as a shift from development milestones towards commercial operations and, crucially, enterprise contracting. The rebrand wasn’t just a “badge…

Press Release: Commercial Revenue for Maritime Connectivity Services Worth $2.4 billion in 2024

Maritime, Press Releases

JANUARY 14TH, 2026, 11:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Valour Consultancy is pleased to announce its latest report: ‘The Future of Maritime Connectivity – 2025’. Its latest study on the global commercial maritime satellite connectivity market highlights a sector entering a new capacity and bandwidth paradigm. The maritime connectivity industry is undergoing a period of structural…

MEMS The Word

Maritime

Introduction Following our article on quantum gravity navigation last summer, it is appropriate to discuss Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Inertial Navigation Systems (INS). These are quite wonderful devices that use microscopic inertial sensors such as accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetic field sensors to provide orientation, heading and velocity data, particularly valuable in applications requiring continuous navigation in…

Starlink Into the Abyss

Industry News, Maritime

Introduction The title of this article is a (bad) reference to a translation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s quote “And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you”. An article in The Maritime Executive reminded me that China has been actively seeking to research ways of blocking Starlink, in particular, and…

Key Headlines from Valour’s Maritime Connectivity Report – 2025 Edition (Preliminary Data)

Maritime

With Valour’s report on The Future of Maritime Connectivity – 2025 Edition nearing release, preliminary findings have been shared with early purchasers and members of our participant programme. The updated statistics make interesting reading.; here are the key headlines. Key Takeaways The global maritime connectivity retail market was worth $2.4 billion in 2024, an increase…

Flat Panel Antennas: Power Rankings. There Are Many Like It But This One Is Mine!

Aviation, Maritime, Mobility

In June 2023, I published Valour’s first study focussed on The Future of Flat Panel Antennas destined for Comms-On-The-Move (COTM) applications (aviation, land and maritime). One of the primary objectives of the study was to identify which of the many vendors developing electronically steered antennas (ESAs) would go on to succeed. At the time, more…