What is GISS?

3.4 Monitoring the location and condition of air transport. Air traffic control under the auspices of ICAO

According to experts, by 2025 the total number of aircraft in the airspace will be about 40 thousand. The existing control systems based on the MK-10/12 “friend or foe” interrogation equipment system, operating in S mode, which is used for air traffic control (ATC) of civil ships, will not cope with such a flow in a number of saturated flight zones.

Even the creation of new onboard equipment 1090S on spacecraft “Iridium next” for broadcasting information from this system to ATC centers, probably, will not solve the whole complex of problems, especially not on all possible and shortest flight routes there are primary radars for tracking and air traffic control.

The general picture of the workload of flights on international airlines is shown in the slides in Fig. 3.11 and fig. 3.12. As you can see, the shortest transpolar and cross-polar air routes are still not used, and direct intercontinental flights are also practically not used.

The implementation of GISS opens up a wide area for the development of a new on-board aircraft equipment that can use all satellite personal communication services, IoT services for requesting from ATC centers and responding with data similar and more complete than in the S-mode of the MK-10/12 with which it will be paired. Using the capabilities of the high-speed packet IP transport inter-satellite network, data will be rapidly delivered to the appropriate ATC centers around the world. In addition, for passengers of airliners, the new equipment of the L- and / or X-bands will provide a signal through the Wi-Fi interface for Internet access, voice and video communications from their serial gadgets.

This direction of use can make a significant contribution of ten billion US dollars for the subsequent renewal of the orbital constellation and operation of the GISS.