Congress is revisiting ADS-B privacy as AOPA-backed legislation proposes limiting tracking data to safety uses and prohibiting fee collection tied to ADS-B broadcasts.

Security and privacy concerns arising from the ability to obtain, and freely share over the internet, ADS-B information transmitted by aircraft have been outlined in a paper to the ICAO Assembly.

In the last several years, ADS-B, has achieved significant traction with Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) and the worldwide aviation community. Compared to previous ground-based radar systems, ...

As airports and governments step up their efforts to track unmanned aircraft and deter their disruption of commercial air operations, the FAA is hinting that automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast ...

Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast, the aircraft-tracking technology in widespread use since 2020, has been much in the news of late as a result of its adoption by social media enthusiasts who ...

The pre-registration period opened Wednesday for the Aireon ALERT program, a free service offered jointly by Aireon and the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) aimed at helping to track aircraft in ...

The H.R. 3935 FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 includes new provisions allowing aircraft owners to obscure their ownership information from broad public display and obtain new ICAO codes/N-numbers to ...

Spire Global has released the company’s first product from Spire Aviation with the launch of its new AirSafe API (application program interface). Spire Aviation’s AirSafe product uses low-Earth orbit ...

In the news among aviation enthusiasts, the ADS-B data aggregation and aircraft tracking site ADSB-Exchange has been sold by its founder to JETNET for a reported $20,000,000. This type of routine ...

ORLANDO, Florida—Flight tracking data provider FlightAware has added space-based surveillance coverage to its ground network of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) receivers and ...