{"id":240603,"date":"2026-07-10T12:11:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/iridium-folds-aireon-aviation-safety-service-into-rocket-lab-bound-business"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:11:37","slug":"iridium-folds-aireon-aviation-safety-service-into-rocket-lab-bound-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/iridium-folds-aireon-aviation-safety-service-into-rocket-lab-bound-business","title":{"rendered":"Iridium folds Aireon aviation safety service into Rocket Lab-bound business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iridium-folds-aireon-aviation-safety-service-into-rocket-lab-bound-business.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Iridium Communications has completed its takeover of Aireon, bringing the aircraft-tracking venture fully in-house ahead of the satellite operator\u2019s planned $8 billion sale to Rocket Lab.<\/p>\n<p>McLean, Virginia-based Iridium said July 6 it had bought the remaining 61% of Aireon it did not already own from air navigation service providers in Canada, England, Denmark, Ireland and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Aireon, which has provided an aviation safety service since 2019 using Iridium satellites and the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) signals aircraft broadcast, will continue to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/iridium-to-take-over-aireon-in-367-million-deal-to-expand-aviation-safety-business\/\">following the $367 million deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Iridium Communications has completed its takeover of Aireon, bringing the aircraft-tracking venture fully in-house ahead of the satellite operator\u2019s planned $8 billion sale to Rocket Lab. McLean, Virginia-based Iridium said July 6 it had bought the remaining 61% of Aireon it did not already own from air navigation service providers in Canada, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2028,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-satellites","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}