LDACS, aviation’s future terrestrial data link, has been tested in flight trials for the first time. On 26 March, a Dassault Falcon 20 research aircraft, owned by DLR, the German Aerospace Centre, took off from […]
Britain’s satellite communications business Inmarsat has reached an agreement to be acquired by a group of investors in a deal that values its equity at $3.4 billion. Inmarsat was known to be in talks with […]
SITAONAIR has exceeded Single European Sky expectations through its instrumental work establishing a multi-frequency European datalink infrastructure to increase air traffic management (ATM) capacity in the region’s airspace. SITAONAIR, the aviation industry’s aircraft communications business, […]
Eurocontrol’s Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) and Indra have together performed the world’s first test-run of the ATN ADS-C application developed by the Spanish technology business to automatically monitor aircraft routes with the aim […]
SITAONAIR has successfully expanded the operational capacity of air traffic service (ATS) datalink across Brazil’s airports, in a crucial step towards modernizing air traffic control operations in the country as air traffic continues to rise. […]
Inmarsat’s research phase of its Iris air traffic management programme has successfully concluded and work on commercial implementation has now commenced. In partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), the programme is being developed to […]
Inmarsat has signed agreements with five major air navigation services providers in support of the Iris programme to modernise air traffic management across Europe. DFS (Germany), ENAIRE (Spain), ENAV (Italy), EUROCONTROL MUAC (North-West Germany, Belgium, […]
SITAONAIR’s François Bardin discusses the status and challenges of datalink in Europe My involvement in European datalink services (DLS) began in 1997 with the Eurocontrol PETAL programme at Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC). Its aim […]
SESAR Deployment Manager and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) marking the start of the collaboration between both organisations. The MoC will see both organisations coordinate over the deployment […]
Italian air navigation service provider ENAV has adopted a digital ground-air-ground communications system across the entire Italian airspace above 8,700 metres. From today, the area control centres from which ENAV manages en-route traffic flying over […]
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