ITU ALLOCATES SPECTRUM FOR SATELLITE-BASED AIRCRAFT MONITORING
January 1st, 2016
THE CEO of American aeronautics company Aireon has welcomed the allocation by the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) of radiofrequency band (1,087.7-1,092.3 MHz) to aeronautical mobile-satellite services (Earth-to-space). The earmarking by this International Telecommunication Union (ITU) body is designed to ensure space stations can receive automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) emissions from aircraft transmitters, namely AMS(R)S – Earth-to-space systems. The band is currently used for ADS-B signals from aircraft to ground-based stations ...
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