Startical, a joint venture between ENAIRE and Indra, is a public-private initiative focused on deploying a constellation of small satellites in low Earth orbit to improve global air traffic management. The company aims to provide satellite-based VHF communications and ADS-B surveillance services, especially for oceanic and remote areas, enhancing flight safety and efficiency. Startical's technology seeks to enable real-time communication between air traffic controllers and aircraft using signals transmitted from space.
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Indra's strategic initiative, the Startical constellation, aims to improve air traffic management with more than 200 small satellites in low Earth orbit.
Startical's global coverage removes the limitations of current transoceanic flights, allowing aircraft to operate over oceans and isolated regions with the same efficiency as in continental airspace.
Startical's satellite data communications allow airlines to send and receive operational messages during flights, providing a more efficient and cost-effective solution than conventional communication methods.
Startical, a Spanish company formed by Enaire and Indra, has successfully transmitted data between an aircraft and the air traffic control system using real-time VHF communications from space for the first time in the world.
Startical has chosen NanoAvionics’s MP42 microsatellite bus, which weighs approximately 110 kg, for a series of tests lasting six months.
Startical will use a satellite produced by Kongsberg NanoAvionics to test the systems of its future constellation of over 270 satellites intended to provide air traffic services from space.
NanoAvionics will provide the MP42 bus, integrate the payload, and perform the launch and first mission operations for Startical’s test mission.
Startical aims to build and launch a satellite platform that will expand surveillance and communication coverage with aircraft, especially over vast oceanic or remote areas without coverage from ground-based air navigation infrastructure systems.
Kongsberg NanoAvionics will provide the MP42 bus, integrate the payload, and launch and execute the first mission operations to enable Startical’s experts to manage the ATM systems onboard.
Startical and Indra will use a satellite produced by Kongsberg NanoAvionics to test the systems of Startical’s future constellation of more than 270 smallsats that are set to provide air traffic services from space.
Startical has chosen NanoAvionics’s MP42 microsatellite bus, which weighs approximately 110 kg, for a series of tests lasting six months.
Startical ordered a 20-kilogram satellite from GomSpace and a 110-kilogram satellite from Kongsberg NanoAvionics as the first of more than 270 spacecraft planned for low Earth orbit.
Indra and Enaire selected GomSpace A/S to develop advanced satellites for global air traffic management under the Startical consortium.
The GomSpace contract with Indra disclosed on 2021-05-10 is estimated to be worth EUR 14.5 million and concerns the Startical project.
The Startical project was announced by Indra and Enaire on 2021-05-18.
GomSpace A/S has been selected by Indra and Enaire’s Startical consortium to deliver a large-scale development and demonstration project for global air traffic management from space.