Jan 1, 2018
Aireon, a joint venture between Iridium Communications, Nav Canada, the Irish Aviation Authority, Italian air navigation service provider Enav, and Naviair—which provides air navigation services in Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands—is on track to have a space-based ADS-B network operational in 2018. Aireon is doing this with an ADS-B receiver payload piggybacking on each of the 75 new Iridium NEXT communication satellites…