ADS-B may be a great thing for tracking airplanes—until they're 50 miles offshore. To remedy that, Aireon's space-based ADS-B tracking system goes live this week, allowing any ADS-B aircraft to be tracked in real time at almost any point on the globe and especially on congested oceanic tracks.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/recent-updates/business-military/aireons-space-based-ads-b-goes-live