{"id":84559,"date":"2011-07-12T17:23:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T09:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/faa-authorizes-iridium-satellite-data-service-for-oceanic-airspace\/"},"modified":"2011-07-12T17:23:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T09:23:21","slug":"faa-authorizes-iridium-satellite-data-service-for-oceanic-airspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/faa-authorizes-iridium-satellite-data-service-for-oceanic-airspace\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA Authorizes Iridium Satellite Data Service for Oceanic Airspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-012-11] <b>The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration<\/b> (FAA) will authorize aircraft operating in oceanic airspace to use Iridium Communications\u2019 satellite data service for critical air traffic control communications, Iridium announced July 11.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; The authorization was the result of a five-year FAA evaluation for aircraft flying in airspace under FAA jurisdiction to use Future Air Navigation System (FANS) 1\/A over Iridium (FOI) to meet communications requirements for air traffic control.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; In a statement, Iridium CEO Matt Desch called the decision \u201can important milestone,\u201d in providing its enterprise and commercial aircraft customers with an alternative for implementing FANS 1\/A communications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWe believe the FAA\u2019s decision validates our position as the optimal satellite service for aircraft operational communications, and opens up significant new opportunities for Iridium in the aviation market. FOI, when implemented, has the potential to enable aircraft operators to reduce their capital investment by half,\u201d said Desch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-012-11] The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will authorize aircraft operating in oceanic airspace to use Iridium Communications\u2019 satellite data service for critical air traffic control communications, Iridium announced July 11. &nbsp;&nbsp; The authorization was the result of a five-year FAA evaluation for aircraft flying in airspace under FAA jurisdiction to use Future Air Navigation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-84559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84559"}],"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=84559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}