Ursa Space Systems and Aireon Team Up to Enhance Aircraft Monitoring with Space-Based ADS-B Data

ITHACA, N.Y., May 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ursa Space Systems, a leading provider of space-based insights, and Aireon, the pioneer of space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) technology, today announced a collaboration to integrate Aireon's real-time aircraft tracking data into Ursa Space's geospatial platform.

This integration will expand Ursa Space's analytic offerings with a global layer of aviation activity, enhancing situational awareness for commercial, defense, and humanitarian use cases.

Aireon's space-based ADS-B service provides low-latency, persistent coverage across the globe, including regions with limited or no terrestrial sensing infrastructure—such as oceans, polar regions, and conflict zones. This data will complement Ursa Space's Virtual Constellation, which fuses satellite imagery and signals from leading electro-optical (EO), synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and radio frequency (RF) providers.

With the addition of Aireon's ADS-B data, Ursa Space customers will gain near real-time visibility into aircraft movements over areas of interest, flight patterns, airfield activity, and aerial logistics. These insights will power Ursa Space's custom monitoring services and subscription analytics, furthering the company's mission to deliver insights at speed and scale.

"Aireon's ADS-B data fills critical gaps in global airspace monitoring," said Adam Maher, CEO of Ursa Space. "By integrating Aireon's world-class data, we're providing our users with a crucial layer of context—what's happening in the skies—alongside activity on the ground and at sea. It's a major step toward delivering the most complete picture possible, no matter the mission."

"Aireon is very excited to work with an innovative company like Ursa Space Systems that is leaning forward in the market to deliver new insights to its customers. We are encouraged that a new group of users will benefit from our persistent air domain monitoring and this collaboration," said Don Thoma, Aireon CEO.

Aireon's ADS-B system is powered by the Iridium^® constellation of 66 low Earth orbit satellites, enabling highly reliable, real-time surveillance of aircraft across the entire planet. Its data is used for air traffic safety, strategic risk analysis, and situational awareness worldwide.

About Aireon

Aireon has deployed a space-based air traffic surveillance system for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) equipped aircraft throughout the entire globe. Aireon is harnessing next-generation aviation surveillance technologies that were formerly ground-based and, for the first time ever, is extending their reach globally to significantly improve efficiency, enhance safety, reduce emissions, and provide cost savings benefits to all stakeholders. Space-based ADS-B surveillance covers oceanic, polar, and remote regions, and augments existing ground-based systems that are limited to terrestrial airspace. In partnership with leading ANSPs from around the world, like NAV CANADA, AirNav Ireland, ENAV, NATS and Naviair, as well as Iridium Communications, Aireon is providing a global, real-time, space-based air traffic surveillance system, available to all aviation stakeholders. For more information, please visit www.aireon.com.

About Ursa Space

Ursa Space offers business and government decision-makers rapid access to advanced multi-modal satellite data and on-demand analytic solutions, detecting real-time changes in the physical world through their satellite network and data fusion expertise. Ursa Space's subscription and custom services provide access to satellite imagery and analytic results without geographic, political, or weather-related limitations. Learn more at www.ursaspace.com.

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