Skykraft

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Skykraft: A comprehensive global surveillance and VHF communication service live in 2025

Skykraft is a transport infrastructure company, delivering space-enabled services. From 2025 our comprehensive ATM system will be operational, with global coverage.

Skykraft’s global ATM Services, enabled by space

• Comprehensive ATM: in combining ADS-B and VHF communications services, from space, Skykraft offers air traffic controllers and pilots a genuinely comprehensive ATM service.
• Global coverage: Our ATM System seamlessly covers the globe from ground level up, reducing the need for extensive terrestrial infrastructure or a change to air traffic controller or aircraft equipment.
• Dedicated ATM System: Designed and built solely for ATM services, our space-enabled system does not have to compromise performance in sharing with other services.
• Resilient through redundancy: Unprecedented performance levels and robustness are driven through layers of redundancy throughout.
• Unmatched availability: With >99.9997% availability, our ATM system keeps aircraft covered in the most challenging environments.

Skykraft: Facilitating the Air Traffic Management for the Future

• Capacity and growth: In enhancing a space-enabled surveillance service with VHF communications, we support more efficient airspace management, including trajectory-based operations and 5NM oceanic separation.
• Sustainability: We assist the aviation industry to meet their net zero targets, by enabling more efficient routing that can reduce fuel burn and minimize contrails.
• Robust surveillance: A minimum of 4 satellites in view of an aircraft at any time enables independent measurement and verification of aircraft position, even with total GNSS failure.
• Evergreen System: Our space-enabled system is scalable to grow with demand. Continuous replenishment and replacement assure performance and an ability to deliver new ATM services.

On track for delivery: In-orbit testing complete in 2024 and operational in 2025