China already has satellites to track planes

Since they are in operation, the Chinese satellites have collected hundreds of thousands of more than 12,400 data aircraft in flight

The three satellites launched by China on the 25th to control movements of civil aircraft and try to avoid mysterious disappearances already in orbit.

The CubeSats designated, weighing only seven kilograms each, are equipped with observation cameras of the polar regions and receivers of automatic identification systems issued by ships and planes.

Satellites such as these could have prevented the loss of contact with the plane of Malaysian Airlines, who disappeared March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board when performed the MH370 flight between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing.

The satellite will receive, for example, emitting information ADS-B, deployed in more than 70 percent of the aircraft throughout the world, providing each second and real time data like flight position, height, speed and direction.

Since they are in place, Chinese satellites have collected hundreds of thousands of over 12,400 aircraft in flight data, said Wu Shufan, responsible for the project design, told Xinhua.

"If there are enough satellites in orbit covering a region, a specific flight could be monitored and this could help in the search and rescue in cases such as the MH370 flight," said Wu Shufan.


It took over a year to be found wreckage that plane Malaysia Airlines, a fragment of the wing, two meters in length, which was found off the island of Reunion.