Bloomberg Article: "Eye-In-Sky Satellite..
Have a read of today's Bloomberg article, "Eye-In-Sky Satellite Storm Alert May Avert Future Air Disasters" at
https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a.s6Gdc8Ww8s .
It provides perhaps the most compelling reason for real-time satellite data. I hope the AMS system can capitalize on this.
Some of the interesting paragraphs are listed below (bolding is mine):
"A system to provide more detailed weather information that may have helped both Jenkins and Dubois has been under development for at least four years by the
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and counterparts around the globe, according to the agency.
The satellite-based upgrade of air-traffic management, primarily aimed at ascertaining aircraft positions more accurately, will have the ability to send real-time climate images and data to cockpits."
"In the U.S., the proposed technology is called NextGen, for Next Generation Air Transportation System, and is estimated to cost the government as much as $22 billion to develop, according to the FAA. The Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast link, being built by a team led by ITT Corp., is slated to be operational by 2013, according to the FAA Web site. ITT, based in White Plains, New York, is a manufacturer of engineering products and communications systems. The FAA, which is working jointly with the Commerce Department and military, expects to spend about $1 billion a year on the system"
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Brazil also is implementing a satellite-based system that will provide both the position of aircraft to control centers -- even if they are outside radar coverage areas -- and real-time climate data, said
Ramon Borges Cardoso, a brigadier in the nation’s air force."
Comment and then question: It appears there is a lot of interest in the satellite supported real-time systems as many players are working on them. The question is, if everyone is sinking money into their own systems, will that leave us out of much of the market?
A long time holder of what has been dead money but hoping (and wondering) if that will change.
Greg