Rockwell Collins Offers FlightAware’s AireonSM Space-based ADS-B Flight Tracking

Rockwell Collins Offers FlightAware’s AireonSM Space-based ADS-B Flight Tracking

Rockwell Collins is now offering AireonSM space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast
(ADS-B) flight tracking to its business aviation customers, a first for the company. The flight tracking solution is the result of integrating Rockwell Collins’ ARINCDirectSM solution and FlightAware’s terrestrial ADS-B network.

The Aireon network is hosted on the Iridium NEXT constellation of satellites, which consists of 66 low-earth-orbit satellites that each carry an Aireon ADS-B receiver. The constellation provides truly global coverage with once-per-minute position updates as the standard rate of reporting anywhere in the world. Since ADS-B out will be required in many countries throughout the world by 2020, aircraft operators typically do not need to install additional equipment to take advantage of Aireon coverage.

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