Spain, June 11 -- Aviation history has been made: Startical, the company founded by ENAIRE and Indra to provide communication and surveillance services from space, has successfully completed the first-ever real-time voice communication between a pilot and an air traffic controller using VHF signals transmitted via satellite. The breakthrough was achieved using IOD-1, Startical's first In-Orbit Demonstrator satellite, launched in March 2025 as part of the European-funded ECHOES project.The first conversation took place during a functional test with actual traffic over the Atlantic Ocean, in which a pilot held a conversation with the controller based at ENAIRE's Area Control Centre in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands) following standard procedure...