Live commercial traffic.
Real-time global commercial aircraft positions from the OpenSky Network. Aethon Skyfield is built against this data infrastructure. The demonstration below shows what we operate against, every day.
Fig. — Live commercial aircraft positions. Hover an aircraft for callsign, altitude, and ground speed. Data: OpenSky Network, CC BY 4.0.
Why this page exists.
This page is not a Skyfield product. It is a demonstration that Aethon operates fluently against the same public aviation infrastructure that defines modern ATC research and operations.
The data was always there. The public infrastructure for global aviation traffic has existed for years. What has been missing is the operator capability to deploy it toward autonomous airspace management — and the willingness to engage internationally first, while US regulatory frameworks remain structurally hostile to autonomy. That is what Aethon is for.
Data provenance and citation
- Data source
- The OpenSky Network · opensky-network.org
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
- Citation
- Schäfer, M., Strohmeier, M., Lenders, V., Martinovic, I., & Wilhelm, M. (2014). “Bringing up OpenSky: A large-scale ADS-B sensor network for research.” In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), pp. 83–94.
The OpenSky Network is a non-profit organization providing open access to real-world ADS-B air traffic data for research and educational use. Aethon Defense's use of this data complies with the OpenSky Network's terms of service and the CC BY 4.0 license, including the attribution requirement.