Rosen Aviation has announced the launch of an operator-designed cabin management system (CMS) for VIP, business and commercial aviation cabins – Celestia. The collaborative venture leverages Rosen’s experience (more than 40 years of delivering aviation cabin technologies) with that of an operator that has been the exclusive user of the Celestia CMS since 2007.
The introduction marks what Rosen calls “a natural culmination of continuous development and true integrated partnership”.
Celestia’s design centres on reliability and redundancy, making use of a distributed network and secondary ethernet backbone, intended to increase efficiency and component health monitoring. Operators and users can create completely custom user interfaces and graphics, and can integrate with iOS and Android PED apps. Additionally, the Celestia system architecture is designed to be highly agile and adaptive to any aircraft environment, such as VIP, business jet or commercial aircraft.
Rosen says that the system architecture is unique to the industry in its design and implementation, and has many benefits that apply to end users, operators and maintainers. These include the ability to easily swap out components between locations with little to no integration required, the company shared. It continued that the system also leverages predictive system diagnostics to increase overall system performance, reliability and robustness.
Rosen will display a functioning system mock-up at Aircraft Interiors Expo (to be held on 8-10 April in Hamburg, Germany) to showcase the full range of system capabilities.
“I think it’s safe to say that this is Rosen’s most impactful announcement in our organisation’s long, storied history,” said Lee Clark, SVP of strategy at Rosen Aviation. “Celestia represents the long-sought-after goal of providing a highly capable, innovative one-stop-shop for all cabin electronics needs, yet maintains a high level of agility and scalability to integrate with other technologies available in the interiors space. We have been vocal advocates for creating that model, and to achieve it now and going forward with Celestia, is a massive accomplishment by our entire team and our partners.”
