Aireon completes deployment of Iridium NEXT – Space based ADS-B

Aireon has announced a successful eighth and final launch and deployment of the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation hosting the Aireon space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) payloads. At 7:31 a.m. PST (15:31 UTC) on the 11th of January 2019 a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and placed the final 10 Iridium NEXT ["]