Inmarsat partners with ESSP on IRIS ATP project: Inmarsat announced a cooperation agreement with ESSP (European Satellite Service Provider) to manage final testing, certification, and integration for the Iris air traffic modernisation programme, in preparation for the service’s commercial rollout across Europe by 2023. Iris has been developed by Inmarsat and the European Space Agency (ESA) to enable real-time collaboration between pilots, air traffic controllers and an airline’s operation centre using cost-effective, secure and highly resilient datalink communications. Altitude Angel joins Inmarsat programme on Velaris: Inmarsat has announced a new partnership network for its Velaris connectivity solution and confirmed the first member is set to be Altitude Angel, the world’s leading Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) technology provider. The new agreement will strengthen the existing partnership between Inmarsat and Altitude Angel, which has initially focused on the development of a Pop-Up UTM platform that delivers advanced flight tracking and management capability for UAVs. As part of the report, ‘UAVs: Unlocking positive transformation in the world’, Cranfield University used its own modelling and primary data resources to compare the CO2 emissions emitted by UAVs and LCVs.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 30, 2021 19:42 UTC