Honeywell e-mail trials use Iridium satellite link
Honeywell is now demonstrating its Inflightmail airborne e-mail service aboard the company’s Citation V.

Honeywell is now demonstrating its Inflightmail airborne e-mail service aboard the company’s Citation V. As configured, the system transmits data through the Iridium low-earth-orbit satellite network using an Airsat 1 satphone and onboard computer server.

Starting this month Honeywell plans to test Inflightmail using higher-speed Inmarsat satcom connections, with the eventual aim of sending large e-mail message attachments from the airplane to the ground and vice versa using Inmarsat’s new Swift64, a 64-kbps data service.