ConnectivitySpaceX Moves Aireon 10 Iridium Satellites Closer to Space-Based ADS-B After a one-day delay, SpaceX successfully launched the fifth set of 10 Iridium Next satellites Monday from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Iridium confirmed shortly after launch that its network operations center made contact…
CommercialSatellite 2018: We Can Prevent Another MH370, But We Might Make It Difficult There is no good reason why tragic mysteries such as Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, Air France Flight 447 and EgyptAir Flight 990 should occur. We have the technology now to prevent or…
ATM ModernizationICAO Talks Infrastructure During World Aviation Forum During the third-annual ICAO World Aviation Forum, which concluded last week in Abuja, Nigeria, infrastructure was an important topic of discussion. ICAO said its council president, Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu, warned African leaders…
Embedded AvionicsSUNY Professor's Patented Flight-Tracking System Could Replace Black Boxes Junaid Zubairi, a computer and information sciences professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia, has received a U.S. patent for his flight data tracker. It was designed by Zubairi…
Embedded AvionicsAirbus, Boeing Support New Standards for GADSS During the opening joint session of the 2017 Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) and Avionics Maintenance Committee (AMC) general session, representatives from the world’s two biggest commercial airplane manufacturers, Airbus and Boeing,…