Iridium Communications, one of the world’s leading providers of global voice, data, and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) satellite services, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Aireon, operator of the world’s only space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) air traffic surveillance system.
The acquisition of Aireon is a defining step in Iridium’s strategy to provide the foundational architecture for global aviation safety, bringing space-based surveillance, safety communications, PNT, and operational data together on a single network.
“Aireon has always been part of Iridium’s aviation safety strategy. We founded it in partnership with the world’s leading Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs), because we believed space-based aviation safety was a generational opportunity,” said Matt Desch, CEO, Iridium. [Read more…] about Iridium to acquire Aireon, advancing its strategy to ‘lead the future of aviation safety’