SATELLITE NAVIGATION WILL COMPLEMENT, NOT REPLACE GROUND BASED INFRASTRUCTURE, SAYS SAT NAV BOSS
December 1st, 2017
THE HEAD of groundbreaking satellite navigation company Aireon has told Jane’s Airport Review that his company’s network will not replace ground-based air navigation services, rather compliment them and supply healthy excess capacity that will boost reliability. Don Thoma, president and CEO of Aireon, Virginia, USA-based space-based automatic dependent surveillance broadcast network system operator, said: “It’s going to be all of the above. There will be need for ground-based infrastructure for high congestion to low usage air space.”
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