Flight Safety via Satellite Globecomm, Harris and the FAA In an average year, US airlines schedule over 700,000 domestic departures and spend nearly 2 million hours in flight carrying more than 68 mil- lion passengers. Keeping this massive system running safely and efficiently is the job of the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Few passengers are aware of the complex tracking and communications system that the FAA depends on to carry out

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