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Papua New Guinea Using Aireon Data for Reduced Separation

Utilizing Aireon LLC’s (Aireon) space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data services, Papua New Guinea’s National Air Navigation Services Provider (ANSP), NiuSky Pacific Limited (NSPL), is achieving unparalleled operational efficiencies for its airspace through reduced surveillance-based separation standards. NSPL, which has been operational with Aireon data since 2020, is now using space-based ADS-B in the application of a surveillance-based separation standard of 20 nautical miles (NM), which has facilitated the application of flexible routing throughout the airspace and the application of less-restrictive separation. Aireon’s space-based ADS-B services are particularly critical for the…

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Flight Safety Foundation, Aireon Forge Partnership to Advance Global Aviation Safety

Flight Safety Foundation will leverage space-based ADS-B data to develop and share safety insights

Flight Safety Foundation has announced an agreement with Aireon to collaborate on applying spaced-based automatic dependent surveillance–broadcast (ADS-B) data to develop, share and identify safety risks in global airspace and use this information to inform emerging issues.  

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ALTA welcomes Aireon LLC as an Affiliate Member

Panama – June 7, 2018 – The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) continues to strengthen the group of industry suppliers that collaboratively work on initiatives for the development of aviation in Latin America and the Caribbean, and today welcomes Aireon LLC: the first ever provider of global space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B).

Unlike traditional air traffic surveillance systems, which are costly to deploy in challenging terrain, Aireon’s system will extend real-time coverage with minimal ground equipment and will be fully available as early as 2018 for both Air Navigation Service Providers as well as airlines to optimize infrastructure, provide enhanced situational awareness and improve operational efficiency. Aireon will enable ATS surveillance through ADS-B reports in every airspace around the world, including the vast remote and oceanic parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.

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