Aircraft operators, Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSP), air traffic control organizations, and others rely heavily on data and associated systems to safely and efficiently operate and navigate aircraft throughout the airspace. From takeoff to touchdown and beyond, positional data is critical. But what happens when the systems fail? What if the GPS data is somehow compromised?
Aireon has developed a proof-of-concept multilateration solution that allows for independent position determination of ADS-B-equipped aircraft. This solution will allow Aireon to continue tracking aircraft even when they are unable to broadcast their GPS position using only their transmitted 24-bit aircraft address and the time of reception at the Aireon Hosted Payloads onboard the Iridium satellites.
