Transport tracking & aggregation via community efforts. ACARS, VDL, HFDL, SATCOM, AIS, Sonde (aircrafts, balloons, ships). Unblocked, unfiltered, uncontrolled.
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Alongside Airwaves OS, we're also announcing xng — the next generation of decoders.
→ xng.airframes.io
Here's the thing: Airwaves OS was never just about Airframes. We believe in the ecosystem, in the community, and in your freedom to choose what you run. We've got opinions (plenty of them), but you're the one at the controls.
So yes, xng ships on Airwaves OS — and so do all the familiar favorites. acarsdec, dumpvdl2, AcarsHub: still right there.
Run what you love.
But we think xng is something special.
Not just because it's a single, memory-safe, tightly-packed Rust binary (though it is). It's because we're still here — actively supporting it, actively building on it. A lot of the old decoders haven't had a commit in years. xng is still shipping.
It's not finished. But it already speaks more than 20 modes - and plenty of them don't just match the benchmarks of the existing tools, they beat them.
And it's all open source. Use it, fork it, break it, improve it, send it back better.
We're not going to beg you to contribute.
...ok, who are we kidding. We are absolutely begging you to contribute.
xng is a different way to decode. Come see for yourself → xng.airframes.io
Officially announcing ...
**Airwaves OS**
A community-supported, open-source OS for the radio/SDR enthusiast.
Initially focused on the aviation/maritime community, but will expand to **all** radio.
It's almost here, but that's just the start. We have so much more planned.
airwavesos.com
Comment "sdr" to get bumped up on the invitation list.
#sdr #radio #aviation #aerospace #osint #ai #tech
First of several bugs squashed.
Found that no limit protections on queries were happening, so some greedy bastard was pulling massive messages per query down. This is a heavy operation that causes timeouts and unnecessary load on the DB cluster.
Sorry buddy, when you pull hard and cause harm to others, it's time to squash that.
Moving onto the next.
Announcing another open source project we are releasing -- PostgreSQL Archiver -- built out of an internal need to archive partitioned tables off to an S3-compatible bucket.
Includes a CLI-based TUI and a web GUI.
github.com/airframesio/postg…
#postgres #s3 #datalake #OpenSource
Mid-summer update:
8 billion messages just crossed tonight. That's pretty cool.
It is nuts to think about what @thebaldgeek & @kevinelliott started many years ago has evolved into this.
We’re not even halfway through 2025, and here’s what things look like at @AirframesIO so far.
AVIATION
✈️ Over 1 billion messages tracked (excluding non-ACARS)
✈️ Over 290 million flight positions logged
✈️ Over 9 million flights tracked
Compared to all of 2024, that’s:
🔼 20% more flights
🔼 289% more flight positions (thanks to improved decoder algorithms)
🔼 18% more messages
MARINE
🚢 Over 1 billion messages tracked
🚢 Over 1.1 million voyages recorded
🚢 Over 837 million voyage positions collected
That’s:
🔼 999% more messages than in all of 2024
🔼 1% more voyages
❓ 837 million positions—still checking how that compares to 2024
We’re basically eating all we can, and we’ll keep going. Work is underway to better store historical data and open it up for search and exploration.
Assuming continued support, more formats are coming soon—and more types of data in aviation, marine, and beyond.
Huge thanks to everyone contributing data and financial support. You're the reason this exists.
Expect some interesting news in the next update.
