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New technology will enhance precision approaches and landings at one of the top ten busiest airports in the country HOUSTON, April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) became fully operational with the first precision approach flown by a United Airlines aircraft using Honeywell's SmartPath Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) on Monday, April 22. IAH is one of two airports in the country participating in a pilot program, in...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Security conferences give experts and hackers alike a chance to expose exploits and weak points in software, all with the understood intent to get these issues fixed. For example, last July Charlie Miller demonstrated how he could break into an Android phone with a malicious NFC chip and some lines of code. According to The Telegraph, this week German security researcher Hugo Teso spoke during the Hack in the Box security...

HAMBURG, Germany, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic), the world leader in in-flight entertainment and communications (IFEC) today announced that it has expanded its product and service offering and its global communication network with the addition of AirDat's real-time weather data and superior forecasting technology. Since 2003, AirDat's advanced technology has changed the way commercial airlines, governments, energy providers,...

HAMBURG, Germany, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic), the world leader in in-flight entertainment and communications (IFEC), today announced it has completed commercial agreement and is now ready to enter into service with Australian Satellite Communications (ASC) with a full transponder of capacity on the Eutelsat 172A satellite pending imminent regulatory approval. Under terms of the agreement, Panasonic will use the capacity on the...

Part 3 of redOrbit’s exclusive 6-part series Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online In the last installment of this series, we took a close-up look at the technology behind Earth Networks Total Lightning Network (ENTLN). In part 3, we will look at the rate of false alarms put out by the ENTLN and compare those to the warning system utilized by the National Weather Service (NWS). We will also look at an anecdotal situation where Robert Marshall, CEO of Earth Networks,...

SYDNEY, Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell's (NYSE: HON) SmartPath has been selected by Airservices Australia as the country's first Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) to improve operational efficiency and decrease air traffic noise at Sydney Airport. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080425/LAF040LOGO) Designed to overcome the limitations of traditional Instrument Landing Systems (ILS), a ground-based instrument approach system that relies on radio signals...

PHOENIX, Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) and Embraer have signed an agreement worth $2.8 billion over its lifetime to provide Honeywell's Primus Epic as the integrated avionics system for Embraer's new second generation of the E-Jet aircraft family. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080425/LAF040LOGO) Avionics can include navigation, communications and display systems in the cockpit to give pilots and crew critical information to help them fly...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The European Space Agency's (ESA) ice mission is giving scientists a better look at oceans, coastal areas, inland water bodies and land. The orbiting CryoSat launched in 2010 and was developed to measure the changes in the thickness of polar sea ice, the elevation of ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica, and mountain glaciers. The satellite's radar altimeter not only detects tiny variations in the height of the ice,...

FREIBURG, Germany, Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is supplying the LCR-100 attitude and heading reference system (AHRS) for Sikorsky's new S-76D helicopter, which recently received Type Certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121024/LA98563LOGO) A photo accompanying this release is available at http://media.globenewswire.com/noc/. The LCR-100 is a standard component of the...

FREIBURG, Germany, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), in cooperation with prime contractor Rockwell Collins Inc., provided the attitude and heading reference system (AHRS) that recently supported the first flight of the new Embraer Legacy 500 executive jet. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121024/LA98563LOGO) A photo accompanying this release is available at http://media.globenewswire.com/noc/mediagallery.html. Northrop Grumman...