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Designing for Decades: Building Upgradeable IFC in a 30-Year Airframe

March 23, 2026

Commercial aircraft routinely serve for a quarter century or more. Satellite constellations and modems, by contrast, evolve on a five-year cadence. That mismatch poses a structural challenge for in-flight connectivity. How do we avoid locking a 30-year asset into a short-lived digital ecosystem?

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