The FAA's LADD program lets pilots block their aircraft from public tracking platforms - but independent receiver networks operate outside those rules.
VectorHow Aireon's 66 satellites put ADS-B receivers in orbit and finally closed air traffic control's oldest blind spot: the open ocean.
VectorADS-B broadcasts aircraft positions unencrypted and unauthenticated - here's why it's spoofable and what the FAA does to catch fake targets.
VectorHow Aireon's 66 space-based ADS-B receivers on the Iridium NEXT satellites gave controllers real-time surveillance over oceans for the first time.
VectorHow Aireon's 66 Iridium satellites put the entire planet under real-time ADS-B surveillance for the first time in aviation history.
VectorHow Aireon's 66 satellites brought space-based ADS-B to the oceans, ending aviation's oldest blind spot and tightening North Atlantic separation.
VectorRadio Hangar explores Aireon, the ADS-B Receivers Riding on the Iridium Satellites, and the Oceanic Gap That Let a Triple Seven Vanish.
VectorHow Aireon's ADS-B receivers on 66 Iridium satellites erased the ocean's surveillance blind spots and ended the era of the untracked airplane.
VectorWhy US ADS-B uses two frequencies (978 and 1090 MHz), how TIS-B relays traffic between them, and why ghost targets appear.
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