>Given the cost of an aircraft and the value it represents, surely the data cost is more than worth it.
How does broadcasting to a satellite reduce current or future costs?
How does broadcasting to a satellite reduce current or future costs?
* the many months/years of effort + associated resources for searching would be likely reduced
* technical/procedural weaknesses that led to aircraft loss could be better analysed, hopefully leading to reduced further aircraft losses, reduced loss of life
Realtime data (other than location) sounds like it would have uses too. Not just alerting for impending or actual failure.
On the other hand, would doing this open up potential remote vulnerabilities for aircraft systems? That could have long term crappy-ness attached. :(
Why should it?
Although we can all think of approaches to try to minimise/exclude that possibility... reality often has ways of showing up things people didn't think of. :(
But if the "transmit only" has anything that receives data - even just ack signals for what's sent, let alone something to negotiate encryption - all bets are off. :(
If you don't include a radio receiver, then there is no capability to receive a single bit, much less negotiate encryption; the system throws out a waveform and the rest of the world may figure out what to do with it if they manage to receive it.