Twelve years on – Iridium NEXT constellation history: In preparation for the final launch, Iridium CEO Matt Desch talked with NASASpaceflight’s Chris Gebhardt about the personal side of the ...

A year after completing launch of their Iridium-NEXT constellation, the Iridium Corporation has marked a major milestone with certification of the constellation for use in the Global Maritime ...

A Canadian woman was recently detained and fined for carrying a GPS device at Goa airport, an incident with established ...

Project Stardust aims to enable NB-IoT communication through Iridium's operational low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite ...

helping further a fiscal leap compared with steep financial losses incurred by the original Iridium, Globalstar and Teledesic constellations of decades past. "We're going to make some money on ...

MCLEAN, Va., May 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) announced today a key milestone in its long-term constellation resilience and redundancy planning, with the ...

Iridium Communications Inc. is a prominent provider of satellite communications products and services. Founded in 2001, the company operates a constellation of 66 satellites, along with additional ...

Prior to Booz Allen, Michael supported the Iridium development and fielding program and led the team that tested the first Iridium constellation at Motorola.

Aireon takes that a step further by using the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation to provide full, continuous air traffic surveillance across the globe. The globe-spanning technology compares ...

The concept for Iridium originated in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a Motorola project. The name "Iridium" comes from the chemical element Iridium, which has an atomic number of 77 ...