Bombardier picks Iridium satcom for CSeries
Bombardier has further honed the satcom plan for its CSeries twinjet, selecting Iridium to power its avionics, RGN can reveal. “We’re starti... Continue Reading
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RGN Premium: Rockwell Collins wants to become one-stop-shop for airlines
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Hawaiian is first up for SB Safety, but Cobham eyes all majors
This week the first airline customer rumored to take on Inmarsat’s SwiftBroadband service to transmit prioritized voice and ACARS/Future Air... Continue Reading
Now that airlines want connectivity, does space industry have capacity for satellite launches?
Inflight connectivity providers have often bemoaned their inability to keep up with the ever growing demand for bandwidth in the skies. Terr... Continue Reading
Inmarsat sees near-term adoption of SB Safety by airlines
Broadband connectivity in aviation is often discussed in terms of what it means for the airline passenger experience, but important work is ... Continue Reading
Honeywell on track with GX hardware, though program faces delay
Honeywell has completed both preliminary and critical design reviews of its antenna hardware for the Inmarsat Global Xpress Ka-band service,... Continue Reading
Black box streaming – if not now, when?
“In this age of constant and ubiquitous data connectivity, does it still make any sense that when a plane crashes, days or weeks of sp... Continue Reading
Delta, American, BA, Norwegian and Virgin to share PaxEx strategies at FTE Global 2014
It is great to see that improving the passenger experience (#PaxEx on Twitter) is now a genuine priority for pretty much all airlines, which... Continue Reading
Airlines undecided about Inmarsat’s free tracking solution
Weeks after Inmarsat proposed a free global airline tracking service to ICAO, Hawaiian Airlines responded with a resolution to participate i... Continue Reading
Kymeta’s timeline for testing over Global Xpress moves to the right
Kymeta, the company that wants to bring super-skinny, metamaterials-based antennas to aviation and other industries, is seeing its timeline... Continue Reading
Streaming data firm Flyht tables plan to IATA, makes gains in China
As IATA surveys vendors on flight tracking options, Flyht – the maker of the real-time flight data streaming system AFIRS – has ... Continue Reading
Gogo, AT&T could score as Inmarsat rolls out hybrid ATG in Europe
Inmarsat gave a surprising endorsement to Gogo’s air-to-ground (ATG) business in the United States when it announced plans today to launch a... Continue Reading
Should pilots be free to shut off tracking? That is the question
IATA may be “a bit more nimble” than ICAO and therefore best suited to act quickly on proposed changes to aircraft tracking policies in the ... Continue Reading
Inmarsat confident MH370 data correct assuming it wasn’t spoofed
Inmarsat says it is confident the satellite communications data it submitted to Malaysian authorities probing the disappearance of MH370 is ... Continue Reading
Inmarsat throws support behind The Amelia Project
Amelia Rose Earhart is recreating the historic last journey of her world famous namesake, Amelia Earhart, with a solo flight around the worl... Continue Reading
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