The GMDSS Academy ensures maritime students receive the required Iridium GMDSS safety instruction for working aboard Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) class vessels.
Iridium GMDSS enables users to make emergency phone calls, initiate an SOS with the distress alert button, and transmit Maritime Safety Information via Iridium SafetyCast.
Iridium's Vice President and General Manager of Maritime Line of Business, Wouter Deknopper, emphasizes the GMDSS Academy's role in improving safety at sea.
PONANT can select the backbone GEO VSAT for data requiring guaranteed throughput while augmenting polar coverage with Starlink, Eutelsat OneWeb, and Iridium LEO services.
The Iridium network’s LEO constellation provides weather-resilient L-band connectivity globally, including in situations when other satellite and cellular networks do not work.
The Iridium network is supported by a constellation of 66 cross-linked L-band satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO).
The Intellian GMDSS safety terminal is planned to use the Iridium network in 2024-10-01.
Iridium Certus® 100 88/88 kbps mid-band service provides voice, data, and video capability for uncrewed and crewed missions.
Iridium expects to generate around $1,000,000,000 in annual service revenue by 2030.
Iridium’s canceled partnership with Qualcomm does not affect Iridium’s financial guidance for 2023.
Qualcomm had an agreement with Iridium to support hardware development and a separate agreement to sell the enabling technology to smartphone makers, and both agreements will terminate on 2023-12-03.
Iridium announced on 2023-11-09 that no smartphone makers had included Qualcomm’s enabling technology in their devices.
Xpand features resilient L-band back-up connectivity up to 700 kbps powered by Iridium Certus globally.
Iridium reached 1 million subscribers in 2018 following the bankruptcy of the original company, a new business plan, and a relaunch.
Iridium completed a $3,000,000,000 next-generation replacement satellite constellation in 2019.
Iridium’s network operates a low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation that provides global L-band connectivity.
Iridium surpassed 2 million subscribers less than five years after reaching 1 million subscribers.
Carson Air selected SKYTRAC’s Iridium Certus SDL-350 broadband L-band satellite system for its fleet of King Air 360 aircraft.
Iridium chief operating officer Suzi McBride projects the direct-to-device market will take about 10 years to reach $1,000,000,000 in annual revenues.
Iridium’s satellite network is designed to provide mission-critical communications for the Department of Defense and other federal agencies in high-risk combat zones and during inclement weather events.