Today, aircraft propulsion systems are digitally connected to ground services for navigation, operations and health management support. At our webinar on 22 September bit.ly/2E6UXvQwe will have two experts from University of Sheffield and One Web presenting on the opportunities to extend this technology into new areas of enhanced real-time diagnosis, adaptable control and autonomy. These extended functions will need to have more capable communications systems with the necessary security, latency, bandwidth, and availability. This webinar will outline these challenges and presents satellite communications as an important part of a solution.
LEO constellations are increasingly becoming a viable commercial solution for a variety of satellite applications. These exploit the low costs and agile engineering enabled by “New Space” business models, which to date we have seen used for earth imaging and ship tracing applications.
One Web is one of the first businesses to use a large-scale, small satellite constellation for telecommunications services. Unlike traditional approaches, using small numbers of very large satellite buses in geostationary orbits, the LEO approach allows for a variety of benefits in capacity, latency coverage and robustness in its service. This enables a multitude of new market opportunities and applications for real time, global data services. The One Web constellation will comprise of up to 48,000 spacecraft to deliver this goal.
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You can also register for the Satellite 5G & LEOs – Beyond the Buzzwords webinar on 25 September via the above link.
How much analysis has been done in terms of robustness against electronic attack either on the satellite uplink ( satellite receiver) channels, or on the down link (same freq as satellite transmitting) .
The same economy of scale that allows many aircraft to share a the same network is also a shared point of failure, and so such a system may become an attractive target to state funded malevolent actors.
I can see that loss of engine telemetry may not be serious, but given the ease with which, for example mobile phone networks can be disabled by jamming the GPS timing to the base stations from low power eBay style jammers, , the idea of more critical actions like landing a plane relying on satellite signals needs some thought.
How much analysis has been done in terms of robustness against electronic attack either on the satellite uplink ( satellite receiver) channels, or on the down link (same freq as satellite transmitting) .
The same economy of scale that allows many aircraft to share a the same network is also a shared point of failure, and so such a system may become an attractive target to state funded malevolent actors.
I can see that loss of engine telemetry may not be serious, but given the ease with which, for example mobile phone networks can be disabled by jamming the GPS timing to the base stations from low power eBay style jammers, , the idea of more critical actions like landing a plane relying on satellite signals needs some thought.
