Since completion of the upgraded Iridium network in early 2019, Iridium’s customer base grew by more than 730,000 subscribers in three years.
Iridium’s first launch in company history took place from Vandenberg on 1997-05-05.
All satellites in the upgraded Iridium constellation were built by Thales Alenia Space.
SpaceX’s eight Iridium launches between January 2017 and January 2019 delivered 75 satellites to low Earth orbit as part of the Iridium NEXT campaign.
The Federal Communications Commission authorized Ligado Networks in 2020 to develop a 0.005 kg cellular service by repurposing a portion of L-band radio spectrum adjacent to GPS and Iridium bands.
The five satellites covered by Iridium’s new $35,000,000 launch contract will not be launched by Relativity.
Iridium signed a 2020 contract with Relativity Space to launch up to six ground spares on Relativity’s Terran 1 rocket.
Iridium’s second quarter earnings release on 2022-07-26 announced a contract for the launch of five satellites for $35,000,000.
Iridium will launch five of its remaining six ground spare satellites on a Falcon 9 rideshare mission in 2023.
Jan De Nul Group plans to roll out Iridium GMDSS in all retrofits and newly built vessels.
Iridium GMDSS provides global coverage, including Arctic and Antarctic waters, via L-band satellite connectivity.
Iridium Communications completed a generational upgrade of its satellite network in 2019 and launched the specialty broadband service Iridium Certus.
The HXDC1600-SAA family of Iridium antennas are specifically tuned for the Iridium network within the frequency range of 1,616 to 1,626 MHz.
Relativity announced customers for Terran 1 including Iridium and Telesat.
Iridium’s June 2020 contract with Relativity included up to six Terran 1 launches each carrying a single spare satellite currently in ground storage.
Iridium signed a 2022-07-26 contract with an unnamed launch provider to launch five spare satellites next year for $35 million, and Iridium’s contract with Relativity remained in effect with one spare left to launch on Terran 1.
Orbital Insight integrates electro-optical, synthetic aperture radar, and RF monitoring satellite data into its platform and ingests vessel traffic data from AIS and air traffic data from ADS-B hosted on Iridium satellites.
The SDL-700 utilizes Iridium Certus broadband connectivity to provide up to 704 Kbps of bandwidth.
The H160M helicopters delivered by Airbus Helicopters for the HIL program will be factory-equipped with SKYTRAC’s Iridium Certus Connected SDL-700 multifunctional system.
Iridium Certus 100 leverages Iridium’s upgraded constellation to provide midband satcom services tailored to the general aviation pilot community.