How Aireon put ADS-B receivers on 66 Iridium satellites to replace 40-minute oceanic position reports with real-time tracking of every equipped aircraft over every ocean.
VectorHow Aireon's space-based ADS-B network, riding 66 Iridium satellites in low Earth orbit, ended decades of blind oceanic air traffic control in November 2019.
VectorHow 66 low-Earth orbit satellites gave controllers continuous real-time position data over oceanic airspace for the first time in 80 years of commercial aviation.
VectorHow Aireon's 66 satellites brought real-time ADS-B surveillance to the oceans and are shrinking separation over the North Atlantic.
VectorHow Aireon's 66 Iridium satellites brought ADS-B surveillance to the oceans and poles, tightening separation and saving fuel.
VectorHow Aireon's 66 satellites brought air traffic surveillance to the 70% of Earth that radar never covered - and why it matters for aviation.
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 satellites brought space-based ADS-B to the oceans, ending aviation's oldest blind spot and tightening North Atlantic separation.
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.
VectorHow Aireon put ADS-B receivers on the Iridium NEXT satellites to deliver the first real-time, pole-to-pole air traffic surveillance.
VectorFlight trackers show pilots far more than position data - groundspeed variations, step climbs, and oceanic routing decisions are all readable in real time.
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