First Flight Controlled Via Satellite Data Link

 

From 1987 to 1990,  David Diez  participated in the planning, coordination, management and implementation of the European Space Agency (ESA) satellite communications project PROSAT/PRODAT, in which the Spanish DGAC, the British CAA and EUROCONTROL were involved.

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The PROSAT/PRODAT was mainly a pioneer experimental program on Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS) and Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC), using INMARSAT satellites.

During the trials the Spanish DGAC succeeded in being first in controlling a flight via satellite data link.

Click below to see some magazine articles  giving details on this subject:

ICAO Bulletin  FEBRUARY 1989

PRODAT/PROSAT data links successful in controlling jet flight

Boletín OACI FEBRERO 1989

Los enlaces de datos PRODAT/PROSAT logran controlar el vuelo de un reactor

Bulletin OACI FEVRIER 1989

Premier vol controlé via une liaison de données par satellite PRODAT/PROSAT

Revista de AERONAUTICA Y ASTRONAUTICA  Nº 615   AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 1992

La Vigilancia Dependiente Automática (ADS)

ATC Magazine Nº 6   OCTOBER / DECEMBER 1995

El servicio móvil aeronáutico por satélite SMAS (II)

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