Wingbits, Korean Air Collaborate on Data “for AAM Airspace Integration Research”

Swe­den-based, Wing­bits, an inno­v­a­tive flight track­ing net­work organ­i­sa­tion, and Kore­an Air, the country’s largest avi­a­tion car­ri­er, are col­lab­o­rat­ing to sup­port the devel­op­ment, research and test­ing of ACROSS (Air con­trol and Rout­ing Orches­trat­ed Sky­way Sys­tem) along­side Kore­an Air’s R&D in-house Inte­grat­ed Air Traf­fic Con­trol and Rout­ing Coor­di­na­tion Sys­tem, reports a press release. 

The release explains, “The agree­ment pro­vides Kore­an Air with access to real-time flight-track­ing data to advance air­space inte­gra­tion research for Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM). This also con­tributes to the airline’s R&D of urban air mobil­i­ty tech­nolo­gies and unmanned air­craft, high­light­ing the company’s com­mit­ment to fur­ther­ing South Korea’s posi­tion as a glob­al leader in avi­a­tion tech­nol­o­gy.”

Robin Wingårdh, CEO and Co-Founder of Wing­bits, com­ment­ed, “Every­thing we do is geared towards cre­at­ing a safer and more secure sys­tem for avi­a­tion data.”

He con­tin­ued, “That’s why we’re so excit­ed about this agree­ment with Kore­an Air, which rep­re­sents the high­est lev­els of avi­a­tion research at one of the world’s most pres­ti­gious air­lines.”

Wing­bits is to pro­vide Kore­an Air with high-qual­i­ty, real-time ADS‑B (Auto­mat­ic Depen­dent Sur­veil­lance-Broad­cast) data cov­er­ing the Incheon Flight Infor­ma­tion Region, and por­tions of North Amer­i­ca and Europe. This will sup­port the next phase of ACROSS devel­op­ment, test­ing and oper­a­tional sur­veil­lance for R&D activ­i­ties.

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Kwan­gOh Moon, Prin­ci­pal AAM Researcher at Kore­an Air R&D Cen­tre, remarked, “Pre­cise, secure, real-time data is foun­da­tion­al to our work. This part­ner­ship will help us pro­duce world-class out­comes in air­space inte­gra­tion research, and we look for­ward to our mutu­al suc­cess.”

The release con­tin­ues, “Wing­bits’ flight track­ing net­work rewards con­trib­u­tors for trans­mit­ting ADS‑B data using the industry’s first ded­i­cat­ed encrypt­ed hard­ware, designed to be the most accu­rate, reli­able and secure glob­al­ly.” 

The start­up is a rapid­ly grow­ing net­work. In its first year, the com­pa­ny has already achieved 80 per­cent glob­al cov­er­age with more than 4,500 active sta­tions; track­ing 150,000 flights dai­ly; and expand­ing their glob­al cov­er­age across North Amer­i­ca, Europe, APAC, the Mid­dle East and Africa.

The coop­er­a­tion under­scores the grow­ing impor­tance of high-qual­i­ty sur­veil­lance data in advanc­ing air­space research. This part­ner­ship is a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone for Wing­bits.

The com­pa­ny raised over USD9 mil­lion in fund­ing last year, backed by the likes of Antler, and co-launched a satel­lite via SpaceX’s Trans­porter-13 mis­sion in March.

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(Top image: Agree­ment between Wing­bits and Kore­an Air) 

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