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...“After the Boeing was shot down, the American side had a statement that it was shot down from territory controlled by the resistance, citing images made from their satellites....
...Following MH370’s disappearance, Inmarsat offered to provide a basic satellite-tracking service to airlines at no extra cost....
...Other military experts have dismissed satellite pictures presented by Moscow to back up its Zaroshchenske claim....
...Earlier this year, AirAsia began rolling out satellite communications systems on its Airbus A320s that would make aircraft easier to track by emitting signals every few minutes....
...The US intelligence case is based in part on information gleaned from sensors on satellites....
...The Inmarsat system on MH370 was not active because Malaysian Airlines was one of the many airlines around the world that had not signed up for the satellite services....
...“SpaceX” – a system of reusing space vehicles....
...The Malaysian government said soon after the jet vanished that MH370’s communications systems were deliberately shut off by someone on board....
...The size of the search area has come down in recent days, helped by the new analysis of satellite data and various as yet unidentified debris spotted in the southern Indian Ocean....
...But the person briefed on the data said an automatic system on the Boeing 777 “pinged” the satellites five times after what is thought to be the last radar record of the aircraft....
...But an automatic system attached to Acars kept running and sent the signals to the satellite. Malaysian Airlines had not subscribed to the satellite service, which meant no data were transferred....
...An Australian vessel equipped with a US navy “passive listening system” to detect the “pinging” of a black box will not arrive in the area until April 5, meaning searchers will have just a few days to locate...
...An Australian vessel equipped with a US navy “passive listening system” to hear the “pinging” from the transponders is not expected to arrive in the search area until April 5, meaning searchers will have...
...“After this we will need to re-look [at] upgrading our radar system,” Mr Hishammuddin said. Additional reporting by Christine Spolar in Washington...
...China, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Laos, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan had told the search and rescue operation that, “based on preliminary analysis”, there had been no sightings of the aircraft on their radar systems...
...The system works differently depending on whether it is communicating with land-based VHF radio networks or the satellite networks that track aircraft beyond land....
...However it is not clear when the aircraft’s communications addressing and reporting system (Acars) was disabled....
...The airline industry will probably need to speed up the deployment of the latest satellite navigation systems to improve air traffic management....
...The focus of the search turned last week to the Indian Ocean based on an analysis of “pings” received by one of Inmarsat’s satellites from an automatic system onboard the aircraft....
...“Chinese satellites have found smoke and floating objects . . ....
...Mr Hishammuddin said Malaysia was trying to gain more radar and satellite data from countries in both of the corridors to help narrow the search area....
...Although the BEA proposals would not have prevented the aircraft from being hijacked, if that is what happened, they would have ensured an automatic system was fitted that would have been broadcasting the...
...Tony Fernandes, the entrepreneur behind AirAsia, the fast-growing budget carrier, is poised to take a significant minority shareholding in Malaysian Airline System, the troubled state-owned carrier, according...
...Another interest is Measat, a satellite operator that owns and operates four communications satellites with a footprint spanning south-east Asia and India....
...“In the past four years, there’s been a 50 per cent increase in the number of cable and satellite [-connected] homes.”...
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