1090ES and European Air Traffic Control
1090ES Ground Station Procurement
03/08/2005
The call for tender for the procurement of
1090 Extender Squitter Ground Station (1090ES GS) for CASCADE trials has been completed. The contract was awarded to Thales ATM that will furnish five systems (one procured, four leased).
These systems will support:
ADS-B reception and TIS-B transmission over extended squitter,
Interoperability with both DO-260 and DO-260A,
ASTERIX cat 21 for ADS-B reports,
ASTERIX cat 62 for TIS-B reports,
ASTERIX cat 22 and 23 for management and monitoring,
Multiple transmission and reception channels (for operation with multiple sector antennas),
Squitter logging and replay facilities.
CASCADE will receive four systems immediately.
These will be identical to the systems used in Australia. Upgrades to the above functionalities will occur in two steps with delivery in January (for ADS-B) and June 2006 (for TIS-B).
The planned locations for the five systems are:
Brétigny (EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre),
Italy,
Athens,
Cyprus and
Portugal. CASCADE is also leasing another four ADS-B 1090ES GS from Raytheon Systems Ltd. These will go to
London,
Frankfurt,
Schiphol and
Shannon.