NATS invests in Aireon

摘要

NATS, THE UK's air navigation services provider (ANSP), has invested in Aireon, the company developing a space-based air traffic surveillance service. Space-based air traffic management (ATM) delivered through Aieron will work through a network of Iridium NEXT satellites in low Earth orbit. The ANSPs who subscribe to the system will receive position reports of airliners equipped with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast out (ADS-B Out) equipment every half a second. The current International Air Transport Association requirement is for position reports every 60 seconds. Several major ANSPs and regulatory authorities have mandated aircraft are equipped with ADS-B Out equipment by 2020.