Aircraft

Aircraft on TerraPulse are organized into the aircraft MovingPlatformDex — one slot per tracked airframe, each a measured record of a real aircraft broadcasting its position, drawn from the ADS-B Exchange live feed. These are observed transponder returns, not filed flight plans or forecasts.

The dexes

The record lives in a single MovingPlatformDex — one slot per airframe, its track built up from live position reports. Counts are live and grow as new aircraft are seen:

Provenance

Every track traces to the ADS-B Exchange (adsb.fi) feed, a community-run network of receivers that captures aircraft broadcasting Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) position reports. The source is registered against the dex, so any record carries a direct line back to the originating transponder return.

What’s in a record

Each airframe slot carries:

• Identity — ICAO hex, callsign, and registration where broadcast
• Position — latitude, longitude, and barometric or GPS altitude
• Motion — ground speed, heading, and vertical rate
• Timing — the position-report timestamp, UTC