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Does that mean they can only get ADS-B data from the tracker every 90 minutes?
by 8bitben 10y ago
Does that mean they can only get ADS-B data from the tracker every 90 minutes?
- deutronium 10y agoI would assume so yeah. I'd be interested to know if there's any reasonably affordable satellite system that you could use for closer to real-time data.
- mirashii 10y agoMy company, Spire, is doing fundamentally the same type of tracking as is described here, except for ships using AIS. By building a constellation of satellites with different orbits, and using a network of groundstations, you can achieve near-real time data. These would be no exception, it's just a matter of scaling up from one to n satellites and having the coverage of a groundstation network to support them.
- lorenzhs 10y agoOh I read about your company in the Economist recently, I thought that was really cool! Here's the article, for anyone interested: http://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2016-25-08/space-2016 http://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2016-25-08/spa... (the bit on Spire is in section 3). That you're also doing atmospheric measurements for weather forecasting seems pretty neat.
- fbender 10y agoThe Iridium NEXT satellites to be launched by SpaceX soon (well, we'll see about that ...) are equipped with ADS-B receivers, see e.g. http://aireon.com/resources/iridium-next/ http://aireon.com/resources/iridium-next/
- JshWright 10y agoNo, the boat doesn't talk to the satellite. They're two different methods they're using to improve coverage.