Iridium Satellites to Monitor Airline Traffic

satellite though the technology could help conserve fuel and reduce the environmental impact of flying...
on the ground than radar or current bursts of data transmitted by planes on long flights over water or remote regions...
Iridium anticipates making similar...
"This is a big milestone for commercially hosted payloads and a...
Atlantic crossings, will begin using Iridium's satellites in five years or so...
using links between a satellite to periodically transmit the position of aircraft...
It also anticipates receiving fees from...
automated data transmissions to keep track of aircraft...
Now the...
, company and...
90% and ITT Exelis intend to move toward continuous,...
McLean, Va...
systems are expected to be phased in for domestic U...
Iridium last year announced plans to improve in-flight communications by...
Today, pilots on long oceanic or polar routes typically rely on...
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Iridium intends to install air-traffic control receivers as...
Nav Canada is part of a...
partners including Harris Corp...
pursuing initiatives to replace ground-based radar with a satellite-based system...
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to nearby aircraft and to change altitudes and routes more easily to conserve fuel and avoid storms...
quickly start achieving the economic and environmental benefits...
and involving Iridium...
secondary, or, "hosted," payloads on all 66 satellites in its next fleet...
It also would give greater flexibility to pilots, allowing them to get permission to fly closer...
arrangements for trans-Pacific flights...
plans to install devices on its next fleet of commercial satellites to continuously monitor airliners and...
With about 1,200 daily flights, the North...
Governments and industry officials on both sides of the Atlantic are...
and its corporate partners...
airlines using the system through 2030, according to the company...
the end of the decade...
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air-traffic-control organizations and other customers using the system...
other air-traffic-control organizations for installing the devices on its satellites...
joint venture supported by the U...
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Nav Canada, the air-traffic-control organization that handles the bulk of...
Iridium executives said they expect that major airlines, as well as...
groundbreaking use" of Iridium's global reach, said Matt Desch, the company's chief executive...
business jets on trans-Atlantic trips, an important step toward eventually replacing radar-based air-traffic control...
Iridium's initiative is intended to help airlines...
Iridium expects Aireon, as its satellite-based effort is known, eventually to...
air-traffic control agencies in Britain and elsewhere, eventually will participate...
The satellite technology would supply more complete and continuous flight information to air-traffic controllers...
cover flights across the Pacific and remote polar regions as well, the company said Tuesday...
flights around...
Extensive satellite-based tracking...
Atlantic is the world's busiest oceanic airspace...
But many airlines are balking at the investments required for such systems—even...
sometimes-unreliable radio transmissions to communicate with controllers on the ground...
Total fuel savings could amount to more than $6 billion for...
Iridium said it expects to receive about $200 million from Nav Canada and...

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