Source-Aireon
We all have heard or talked about the historical disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 and the deepening mystery that surrounds it.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 “MH370” departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport, on March 8th, 2014, at 16:42 UTC with 239 passengers and crew en route to Beijing Capital International Airport, MH370 never made it to its intended destination and the historical mystery of its crash location remain a mystery. Possible locations of where the loaded plane may undoubtedly have gone down has been back and forth during the official investigation. Global ADS-B coverage will essentially eliminate the possible chances of another MH370 from repeatedly happening again!
ADS-B {automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast} is genuinely a automated system equipped on nearly all aircraft flying through the visible skies in the world today, it automatically transmits a data burst of accurate information on 1090 MHZ every half-second typically containing the aircrafts current GPS position, Speed, Altitude and Heading. ADS-B typically requires no direct input from the flight crew as it automatically transmits the dependent information accurately provided by on board sensors.
Aireon LLC a private company that typically manufactures aircraft tracking systems hopes to prevent another notable MH370 incident. Aireon alongside Iridium a satellite communications company launched will launch 66 crossed-linked satellites into proper orbit each containing precisely a rugged space based ADS-B receiver. These capable satellites will adequately provide full global reception of the ADS-B signals sent out by planes at anytime or anywhere in the world and transmitted back to air traffic controllers. Currently areas that do not have radar service to track planes mainly over the vast oceans typically rely on the flight crew to report there official position every 15-minutes to air traffic controllers, Between that time no one knows precisely where that loaded plane is precisely!
“Seventy percent of the world’s airspace has no surveillance,”
Don Thoma Aireon CEO
For the plane to typically transmit its ADS-B informational data to one of the Space based receivers it simply needs to typically have an antenna properly connected to the automated system and the antenna on top of the fuselage. Most people have undoubtedly seen ADS-B data properly translated on their mobile phones and desktop computers via an mobile app or dedicated website. A particular commercial website and app is FlightRadar24. The information being plotted on the website about that aircraft is most likely derived ADS-B data being broadcasted from the plane to a satellite based receiver and re-transmitted back to a ground receiver.
