Timeline for Has any spacecraft ever had the ability to directly communicate with civilian air traffic control?
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| Apr 30, 2019 at 15:24 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | "MIA, this is Endeavour OV-105. MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY. Request permission to land in 75 seconds on runway 12-30. Yes, I know that you cannot see us. No, we cannot go around." | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 22:05 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | @stripybadger - are you sure you are not confusing Amateur ("ham") radio with CB? The former has a long and well documented history of use on space stations and the shuttle, the later seems unlikely. | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 13:26 | vote | accept | DrSheldon | ||
| Apr 29, 2019 at 11:28 | comment | added | stripybadger | The ISS occasionally transmits on CB radio (just for fun, iirc) - I don't happen to know if that means it could talk to ATC though. | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 10:43 | answer | added | Bullfrog | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 3:50 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | Presumably civilian suborbital space planes fit standard aviation radios in addition to whatever special they carry, though they're probably not routinely talking to ATC during a flight, but instead operating under pre-arrangement; could easily imagine carrier planes doing some coordination and announcement however. | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/1122697082769481729 | ||
| Apr 28, 2019 at 23:11 | answer | added | Chris Stratton | timeline score: 30 | |
| Apr 28, 2019 at 13:11 | answer | added | Organic Marble | timeline score: 45 | |
| Apr 28, 2019 at 12:46 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Apr 28, 2019 at 8:29 | answer | added | busdriver | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 28, 2019 at 7:30 | history | asked | DrSheldon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |