{"id":75554,"date":"2014-12-03T22:31:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T14:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/bristow-helicopters-using-iridium-thales-for-satellite-broadband-2\/"},"modified":"2014-12-03T22:31:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T14:31:41","slug":"bristow-helicopters-using-iridium-thales-for-satellite-broadband-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/bristow-helicopters-using-iridium-thales-for-satellite-broadband-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristow Helicopters Using Iridium, Thales for Satellite Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 12-03-2014] <b>Bristow Helicopters <\/b>has selected <b>Iridium<\/b>\u2019s OpenPort service to provide satellite broadband through <b>Thales<\/b>\u2019 LiveAero product for its Sikorsky S-92 helicopters. The rotorcraft, which are purposed for search and rescue missions, will now allow emergency responders on board to send real-time transmissions of patient vitals to land-based medical staff. Broadband through Iridium and Thales will also be used for accessing automated electronic patient information to improve in-flight medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Bristow began search and rescue operations in 2013 and plans to have 10 helicopter bases across the U.K. by the summer of 2017. Through Bristow\u2019s contract with the U.K. <b>Maritime and Coastguard Agency <\/b>(MCA) the connected helicopters will be deployed with civilian search and rescue services across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Iridium has provided satellite communications for rotorcraft for several years, but is now extending this to include broadband services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe heavy rotorcraft segment provides an addressable market of more than 10,000 aircraft worldwide \u2014 many are ideal candidates for LiveAero\u2019s solution using Iridium broadband connectivity,\u201d said Brian Pemberton, executive director for Iridium\u2019s aviation and maritime lines of business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 12-03-2014] Bristow Helicopters has selected Iridium\u2019s OpenPort service to provide satellite broadband through Thales\u2019 LiveAero product for its Sikorsky S-92 helicopters. The rotorcraft, which are purposed for search and rescue missions, will now allow emergency responders on board to send real-time transmissions of patient vitals to land-based medical staff. Broadband through Iridium and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75555,"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-75554","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\/75554"}],"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=75554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}