Press Release: Develop satellite tracking of aircraft to improve safety and security, urge MEPs

The European Parliament approved a resolution on 29 October 2015 defending that satellite technology that could one day track aircraft anywhere, so as to enhance safety, prevent safety and security breaches and facilitate data recovery for crash investigations, should be allocated its own radio spectrum band.

They urged the European Commission to put the case for earmarking this satellite-specific band, in order to promote development work, at the November 2015 meeting of the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15) in Geneva.