Aireon, the global leader of space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) data products and services, and Ursa Space Systems, a leading provider of space-based insights, today announced a collaboration to integrate Aireon’s real-time aircraft tracking data into Ursa Space’s geospatial platform.
This integration will expand Ursa Space’s analytic offerings with a global layer of aviation activity, enhancing situational awareness for commercial, defense, and humanitarian use cases. For Aireon, this collaboration provides an excellent use case for a new customer market segment, and showcases the tremendous value the high-fidelity, low-latency data from Aireon brings to the geospatial community.
“Aireon is very excited to work with an innovative company like Ursa Space Systems that is leaning forward in the market to deliver new insights to its customers. We are encouraged that a new group of users will benefit from our persistent air domain monitoring and this collaboration,” said Don Thoma, Aireon CEO.
Aireon’s space-based ADS-B service provides persistent coverage across the globe, including regions with limited or no terrestrial sensing infrastructure — such as oceans, polar regions, and conflict zones. This data will complement Ursa Space’s Virtual Constellation, which fuses satellite imagery and signals from leading electro-optical (EO), synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and radio frequency (RF) providers.
With the addition of Aireon’s ADS-B data, Ursa Space customers will gain near real-time visibility into aircraft movements over areas of interest, flight patterns, airfield activity, and aerial logistics. These insights will power Ursa Space’s custom monitoring services and subscription analytics, furthering the company’s mission to deliver insights at speed and scale.
“Aireon’s ADS-B data fills critical gaps in global airspace monitoring,” said Adam Maher, CEO of Ursa Space. “By integrating Aireon’s world-class data, we’re providing our users with a crucial layer of context — what’s happening in the skies — alongside activity on the ground and at sea. It’s a major step toward delivering the most complete picture possible, no matter the mission.”
