![]() Skytrac and Blue Sky Network are among the companies bringing Certus satcom solutions to the airborne domain. “These partners are closing critical certification milestones, performing successful flight tests, and some will be entering service with first installations in the coming months in both rotary and fixed-wing applications.” “Iridium has been working with a handful of partners, who will be launching their respective products using Iridium Certus in the second half of this year,” said Desch on the earnings call. “Our opportunity has only expanded in the last year now that our technology partners have enabled efficient video transmission over the Iridium Certus platforms,” noted Desch.Ĭertus 100 is also poised to facilitate messaging and other lite cabin connectivity services onboard civil aircraft, as disclosed in June by AS-IP Tech.īut installs of higher-bandwidth Certus terminals onboard rotary and fixed wing aircraft are forthcoming. Iridium’s Certus 100 midband service, with IP data speeds of up to 88 Kbps, is already powering small form factor terminals used in the growing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) segment. As a pilot, this is one business opportunity that I remain very excited about and I can’t wait to see come to market.” “The timeline for aviation services have been necessarily long due to the regulatory testing and rigorous certifications required for each piece of equipment that enters the cockpit. “We’re expecting to finally see Iridium Certus aviation terminals start activating on our network this year and next,” revealed Iridium CEO Matthew Desch during an earnings conference call to report robust second quarter revenue of $174.9 million, up from $149.9 million in the year-earlier quarter. But after years of work, aviation stakeholders are now closing in on the launch of new terminals to support Iridium Communications’ global next-generation Certus service in the cockpit on commercial and business aircraft. Cracking into civil aviation with a new product or service can be a time-consuming process due to the industry’s necessarily stringent certification requirements. ![]()
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