Malaysia Airlines introduces a system to track aircraft in all areas of the earth using artificial satellites

ByAceebee

It happened in 2014Malaysia Aviation 370 flight crashIs a major accident involving 239 passengers and passengers dead, making it an incompatible accident even with a lot of mysteries that the footprints after the aircraft's disappearance are completely unknown. Malaysia Airlines, which operated the aircraft that caused the accident, announced that it will introduce the world's first airborne position tracking system using artificial satellites.

Corporate Info - Press Releases - Latest - 18 Apr 2017 | Malaysia Airlines
https://www.malaysiaairlines.com/jp/ja/corporate-info/press-room/2017/global_flight_tracking.html

Malaysia Airlines First to Track Fleet With Satellites - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-18/malaysia-air-is-first-airline-to-track-planes-with-satellites

Malaysia Airlines, on April 18, 2017, will collaborate with SITAONAIR, Aireon, FlightAware, which provides aircraft tracking solutions using satellites, to introduce a system to grasp the location of the company's aircraft on the whole planet Announced. With this countermeasure Malaysia Airlines will be able to grasp the position of offshore aircraft, which was previously impossible, in near real time.

The aircraft has already been equipped with a device called "ADS - B" that can inform you of its position, identification symbol, airspeed, aircraft rise, descent etc, By sending information to base stations, it was possible to notify air traffic controllers and airlines about the condition of the airframe. In addition, anyone can use "Flightrader 24" using this mechanism on the net.

Flight radar that knows on a map where the aircraft is flying in real time - GIGAZINE


However, because the conventional ADS - B requires existence of ground base stations, there was a weak point that aircraft flying off ocean off the land can not be tracked. Therefore, Malaysian Airlines introduces Malaysian Airlines System which eliminates the area that can not be tracked by receiving ADS - B using satellite. this is,FlightAwareTo the real-time tracking information of the aircraft provided by the aircraft,AireonBy adding the tracking information using the satellite provided by SITAONAIR, "AIRCOM FlightTracker"It is said that it is configured to strengthen the service called called. Using this system, one of the merits is that it is not necessary to equip the existing aircraft.

Aireon - Space - Based ADS - B Global Air Traffic Surveillance


This is one of the countermeasures that took place in 2014, "Malaysia Aviation 370 flight crash". By understanding the status of the aircraft in real time it is possible to visualize the situation, prevent the occurrence of the situation and be expected to be able to conduct the search as soon as possible in case of emergency.

Malaysia Airlines 370 flight crash - Wikipedia

However, in the event of this accident, it is said that the pilot deliberately powered down the system that informs of its own position, and how to prevent the loss of information when there is an artificial act I wonder if the measure of this is still necessary. As a similar service, Iridium provides a tracking system using the artificial satellite "Inmarsat", and Rockwell Collins offers a service called Airinc.