{"id":58230,"date":"2021-01-25T21:43:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T13:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/inmarsat-supplies-satellite-service-to-the-uks-zero-carbon-air-transportation-program\/"},"modified":"2021-01-25T21:43:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T13:43:04","slug":"inmarsat-supplies-satellite-service-to-the-uks-zero-carbon-air-transportation-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/inmarsat-supplies-satellite-service-to-the-uks-zero-carbon-air-transportation-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmarsat Supplies Satellite Service to the UK\u2019s Zero-Carbon Air Transportation Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Satellite operator <strong>Inmarsat <\/strong>will provide connectivity services to a United Kingdom government initiative, <strong>Project HEART<\/strong>, which aims to build the U.K.\u2019s first automated, zero-carbon regional air transportation network by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Project HEART, which stands for \u201cHydrogen, Electric, and Automated Regional Transportation,\u201d will develop hydrogen-powered, automated and remote piloting solutions for small aircraft carrying between 9 and 19 passengers, travelling a distance of fewer than 500 nautical miles.<\/p>\n<p>Inmarsat will contribute satellite services to a hybrid connectivity solution that the U.K. government will use for remote \u201cdigital\u201d co-piloting and critical communication in the aircraft cockpits. The network is also expected to include a Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy (BEIS) directs a consortium of U.K. technologies on the Project HEART initiative, which is funded by the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) Future Flight Challenge (FFC). Inmarsat representatives could not be reached for comment concerning the the financial details of their participation.<\/p>\n<p>In a public statement, the operator said the connectivity solution will be evaluated on Britten-Norman-designed aircraft and that as many as 100 licensed U.K. airfields will eventually take part in the initiative. The operator will work alongside its technology partner <strong>Honeywell Aerospace<\/strong> to complete the network buildout.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite operator Inmarsat will provide connectivity services to a United Kingdom government initiative, Project HEART, which aims to build the U.K.\u2019s first automated, zero-carbon regional air transportation network by 2025. Project HEART, which stands for \u201cHydrogen, Electric, and Automated Regional Transportation,\u201d will develop hydrogen-powered, automated and remote piloting solutions for small aircraft carrying between 9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}