Nav Canada is the private agency responsible for providing air traffic control services in Canada. Article Continued BelowThat’s because as commercial jets have grown more sophisticated in their capabilities, air traffic control has failed to keep pace. Indeed, some 70 per cent of the Earth has no real-time air traffic control surveillance. The new satellites will allow those signals to be tracked from space too and fed to air traffic controllers, providing a radar-like picture. Air traffic control agencies in jurisdictions such as Singapore, South Africa, Ireland and Iceland have signed on to use the new technology, paying Aireon for the data.

Source: thestar February 10, 2017 22:19 UTC