Aireon is deploying the world’s first truly global air traffic surveillance system, extending ADS-B across the entire planet. Through an unprecedented space-based ADS-B system, Aireon provides 100 percent surveillance coverage of ADS-B equipped aircraft in real time.
Space-based ADS-B is a turn-key surveillance solution, delivering traditional ADS-B messages directly to the Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) like traditional ADS-B radio would do. The major difference is that the Aireon delivery point provides a single source for all 1090ES aircraft for the entire FIR and beyond.
Space-based ADS-B eliminates global blind spots, allows for increased safety, provides more precise aircraft locations, improves search and rescue response, reduces gross navigation errors, enhances cross-border safety and allows for faster pilot/controller communication.
This reference guide gives high-level overviews of the history of air traffic surveillance, how aircraft position is currently determined, ADS-B history, the challenges of current global surveillance and how Aireon data is transforming air traffic surveillance.
GlobalBeacon, a first of its kind product from Aireon and FlightAware, detects aircraft position in real-time, everywhere in the world. It's an easy-to-deploy solution to help airlines become compliant with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Global Aeronautical Distress Safety System (GADSS) standards
Aireon Aircraft Locating and Emergency Response Tracking (ALERT) is the aviation industry’s first and only free, global emergency aircraft location service. Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs), aircraft operators, regulators and search and rescue organizations in need of crucial aircraft location data, can rely on Aireon ALERT to help provide an ADS-B OUT 1090MHz equipped aircraft’s most recently known position.
