Aircraft earth station explained

Aircraft earth station (also: aircraft earth radio station) is – according to Article 1.84 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR)^[1] – defined as "A mobile earth station in the aeronautical mobile-satellite service located on board an aircraft."

Each station shall be classified by the service in which it operates permanently or temporarily.

See also

See main article: Radiocommunication service.

Classification

In accordance with ITU Radio Regulations (article 1) this type of radio station might be classified as follows:
Earth station (article 1.63)

• Mobile earth station (article 1.68) of the mobile-satellite service (article 1.25)
• Land earth station (article 1.70) of the fixed-satellite service (article 1.21) or mobile-satellite service
  • Land mobile earth station (article 1.74) of the land mobile-satellite service (article 1.27)
• Base earth station (article 1.72) of the fixed-satellite service
• Coast earth station (article 1.76) of the fixed-satellite service / mobile-satellite service
• Ship earth station (article 1.78) of the mobile-satellite service
• Aeronautical earth station (article 1.82) of the fixed-satellite service / aeronautical mobile-satellite service (article 1.35)
• Aircraft earth station

References / sources

1. ITU Radio Regulations, Section IV. Radio Stations and Systems – Article 1.84, definition: aircraft earth station / aircraft earth radio station

• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)