AirSafe Tracking Stream

Spire’s AirSafe Tracking Stream delivers the Target Updates as soon they are received and processed from both Satellite and Terrestrial sources in a data stream. It was designed to support multiple use cases:

• You want to open a persistent connection and receive target updates continuously, as soon as possible as they’re available to Spire

• You want to connect periodically, for example once an hour or once every 15 minutes, to retrieve all data produced since the last time you connected using the position_token

• You want to retrieve data up to 24h old, by selecting the data in time buckets.

The ADS-B capable aircraft transponders emit several messages with different bits of information several times per second. Spire’s satellites collect these messages that are procesed into a Target Update, that is an update for each ICAO address for each 5 second interval.

AirSafe Tracking History

Spire’s AirSafe Tracking History delivers recently acquired (with a 4 hour delay) and up to 3 months old Target Updates from both Satellite and Terrestrial sources via a REST endpoint delivering JSON formatted target updates. It can be used to retrieve historical data in a specific region, fleet or aircraft during a particular time for instance.