Deutsches Zentrum Fuer Luft-Und Raumfahrt E.v

Deutsches Zentrum Fur Luft-Und Raumfahrt E.v.

Jorg Behrens

Klaus Werner

Lars-Christian Hauer

Toni Delovski

Andis Dembovskis

The invention relates to a monitoring system for the air-traffic control of flight objects (), which have transmitting units for emitting air-traffic control radio signals (ADS-B), wherein the air-traffic control radio signals (ADS-B) containing flight data concerning the respective aircraft (), the monitoring system comprising a plurality of receiving units (to), which are designed to receive the emitted air-traffic control radio signals, wherein a plurality of satellites (to) are provided, which each have communication means for forming a common satellite communication network and on each of which at least one of the receiving units (to) is arranged, wherein the receiving units (to) are connected to the communication means of the respective satellite (to) and are designed to transmit the flight data contained in the air-traffic control radio signals to at least one ground station () having a communication connection to the satellite communication network using a common communication protocol of the satellite communication network.

Satellite communication network

The invention comprises a satellite () having at least one transmitting and/or receiving unit (), which has an antenna assembly () for transmitting and/or receiving air-traffic control radio signals (), wherein the antenna assembly () has a plurality of directional antennas (to), which each form a respective transmitting and/or receiving sector (toto) within a defined transmitting and/or receiving area () and are designed to transmit and/or receive air-traffic control radio signals () in the respective transmitting and/or receiving sector (toto) of the directional antenna.

Satellite having a plurality of directional antennas for transmitting and/or receiving air-traffic control radio signals

The invention relates to an Automatic Identification System (AIS) ship's transceiver for sending and receiving AIS radio signals, wherein the position can be taken as a basis and/or adjacent ships can be taken as a basis for activating or deactivating the emission of AIS radio signals of a second AIS radio signal type for satellite-assisted monitoring.

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Bremen, Germany

Jorg Behrens