Aireon achieves major milestone to bring space-based VHF to aviation marketplace
Aireon, a global leader in aviation data products and services, marked a significant achievement in its campaign to bring space-based VHF services to the aviation marketplace with the spectrum licence filing with regulators.
In a filing this month through Canadian spectrum regulator Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Aireon put forward its plans for an enhanced satellite constellation of VHF and automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) payloads to enable reliable and robust communications and surveillance service from space for aircraft around the world, with particular focus on oceanic and remote environments where ground communications infrastructure cannot support efficient operations.
