By Woodrow Bellamy III
In May 2018, NATS, the air navigation service provider for the U.K., made a $69 million investment in Aerion's space-based ADS-B network and a 10% equity stake in the global air traffic surveillance company. Now that Aireon has formally received control of the final six ADS-B payloads from Iridium, it's time to begin live operational trials of the new technology, which has been generating aircraft position reports since 2017. (Source: Aviation Today)
