Aireon LLC,
a 2012 joint venture between Iridium and Nav Canada, with the Canadian ANSP contributing $150 million for a 51% ownership. Since then, Aireon has raised an additional $120 million by signing additional partners Irish Aviation Authority (6% ownership), Italy’s ENAV (12.5%) and Denmark’s Naviair (6%)
Aerions and Nav Canadas ADSB coverage.
In addition:
From 2015
In early October, Aireon and Airservices Australia jointly announced that their MOU would not only explore facilitating smoother transitions with neighboring FIRs, reducing costs to operators and enhancing safety, but introducing ADS-B services to the majority of the 20 million sq. nm. (51.7 sq. km.), or eleven percent of the globe, that Airservices manages that constitutes oceanic airspace. (As the accompanying sidebar explains, Australia was the first nation to install a network of ADS-B ground stations across its continent. Currently, more than 60 percent of aircraft operating under IFR in Airservices Australia airspace are ADS-B-equipped.)
According to Airservices’ Greg Hood, executive general manager for ATC, the ANSP is interested in determining “the potential safety benefits and the technology and efficiency benefits [Aireon] may offer to our customers, especially for oceanic services and in cross-boundary coordination with our neighbors.”