Originally Posted by
Running Ridges
True, but then he kept on talking about it as 'new data received this morning'. The ADS-B data is hardly new
I have been hoping for some data to show up from Aireon, a company that uses a satellite constellation (Iridium Next) to receive ADS-B data. All of their satellites have been launched, they are about to go live with their service I believe, and their hardware must have been 'on'..
By receiving ADS-B from orbit, they may have received data for longer than what has been available from ground based receivers until today. From orbit, terrain interference should be much less.