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Aireon Global Air Traffic Surveillance Planned for 2018

A planned joint venture by Iridium Communications and Nav Canada promises to offer worldwide ADS-B-based air traffic surveillance services using the upcoming Iridium Next satellite network. Announced this morning, the joint-venture company, called Aireon, will add 1090ES ADS-B receivers made by Harris to each of the 66 satellites (and backups) destined to form the Iridium Next constellation, which begins launching in 2015 and will be completed in 2017.

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