Airlines have been split on whether to go with a ground-based system or with satellite-based systems.
Gogo says it plans to transition to satellite-based technology and provide international coverage beyond North America.
The development of satellite-based mobile-telephony is creating demand for new bits of the radio spectrum.
This satellite-based system has been developed in America, but nearly all the software is British.
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Look at Garmin, which commercialized a technology with roots in defense: satellite-based global positioning.
For instance, the same technology that guides missiles can be repackaged to provide satellite-based air-traffic management systems.
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If that mission is successful, then we might start seeing the backbone of a satellite-based, secure, quantum Internet.
It should be relatively straightforward to detect these using satellite-based telescopes such as Fermi, which was launched last year.
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Its Iridium satellite-based global phone system switches all calls in the sky without using any ground stations, an impossibly difficult task.
And Congress is torn over a bill that would help fund a satellite-based air traffic control system to ease aerial bottlenecks.
Satellite-based data links will improve communication between pilots and ground controllers, cutting out about 40% of voice communication over the radio.
This month, Qantas is partnering with a company called OnAir to test satellite-based Internet service aboard flights from Australia to Los Angeles.
Satellite-based systems, such as service offered by Row 44, offer faster speeds, more bandwidth and global coverage over oceans, but aren't as developed yet.
Life remained good, even after satellite-based competition from DirecTV Group ( DTV) and Dish Network ( DISH) began to tighten things up a bit.
Look at Garmin (nasdaq: GRMN - news - people ), which commercialized a technology with roots in defense: satellite-based global positioning.
Cruise missiles have been fitted with satellite-based guidance systems making it possible to readjust their course in mid-flight and, in theory, to achieve pinpoint accuracy.
The company's hugely efficient satellite-based dispatching system traces to a visit a Cemex team made in 1994 to FedEx, Exxon and the 911 center in Houston, Tex.
They could soon be enjoying vast new fortunes, showered from above by cheap satellite-based digiphones from Iridium, Qualcomm, Teledesic and others -- each phone with an Internet address.
The researchers hope to keep the data series, funded by the EU and the Natural Environmental Research Council (Nerc), running for as long as satellite-based measurements are available.
The report also urged the Ministry of Defence to plan for the loss or degradation of satellite-based communications systems in case they are damaged by severe space weather.
To start with, they will use a combination of aerial photography, field measurements, and ground- and satellite-based sensors to compile a map of all the thermokarstic areas of Alaska.
One global company based in Florida, MTN has for the past thirty years pioneered and developed satellite-based services for virtually all of the cruise ships and cargo carriers in the world.
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The FAA says funding for the new fee system, combined with federal money, would shift the 40-year-old ground-based air traffic control system to a satellite-based, cockpit-to-cockpit system that is safer and more efficient.
The study, the first of its kind to use the satellite-based global positioning system to provide the animals' locations, involved tagging 14 African elephants with sophisticated radio collars and monitoring their movements for several months.
Just one year ago, the Bush administration announced it would keep the ground-based LORAN system operational to serve as a backup for the satellite-based global positioning systems, which are becoming ubiquitous in cars, planes and ships.
Using satellite-based snow melt maps supplied by the European Space Agency (ESA) backed program Polar View, herders are able to view the depth of snow and judge where the best foraging spots are to take their reindeer.
However, with the number of US passengers set to rise to one billion per year by 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is planning a move to a new satellite-based system, called Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen.
From broadband Internet to latest-generation wireless technologies, from aeronautical and maritime navigation to radio astronomy and satellite-based meteorology, from convergence in fixed-mobile phone, Internet access, data, voice and TV broadcasting to next-generation networks, ITU is committed to connecting the world.
Boeing, which moved its corporate headquarters from Seattle to Chicago 16 months ago to emphasise its diversification, is also forging ahead with ambitious plans to offer satellite-based air-traffic management services as soon as governments have the courage to adopt this technology.
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