Iridium expects total service revenue growth of 7–9% for 2022, raised from a previous forecast of 5–7%.
The two Iridium Certus Connected portable terminals offer pole-to-pole connectivity with 99.9% reliability, low latency, and capabilities including telemetry streaming and two-way messaging.
Iridium’s net income for the three months to the end of June 2022 increased 19% to $4,600,000.
Iridium recorded revenue of $175,000,000 for the three months to the end of June 2022, a 17% increase compared with the same period in 2021.
Iridium Certus 100 provides up to 88 Kbps of bandwidth through SKYTRAC’s DLS-100 and Blue Sky Network’s SkyLink 7100 portable terminals.
Iridium Certus Connected terminals combined with Iridium Certus 100 enable connectivity to any airframe using small form factor devices that do not require costly installations or certifications.
Iridium won a seven-year $738,500,000 DoD contract in 2019 for unlimited usage of Iridium narrowband devices for an unlimited number of subscribers.
Satelles has been providing assured PNT services to back up GNSS since 2016 over Iridium’s satellites in low Earth orbit.
The LT-4100 is the first Iridium Certus 100 terminal and delivers voice and data connectivity with 100% global coverage.
DoD signed a seven-year agreement in 2019 with Iridium Communications for unlimited use of Iridium’s mobile communications constellation.
The General Dynamics Mission Systems–Iridium team will develop, equip, staff, operate, and maintain commercial-like operations centers for the Space Development Agency.
The Exploration Company selected SKYTRAC’s Iridium Certus mid-band SATCOM terminal for data transmission from its space capsule to the ground.
Iridium, PlanetiQ, and GeoOptics joined a coalition of 90 companies, organizations, and associations seeking to overturn the FCC’s April 2020 approval for Ligado’s terrestrial use of L-band spectrum.
Iridium operates a constellation of 75 communications satellites in low Earth orbit and provides satellite communications services to U.S. government and commercial customers.
Iridium pursued the Space Development Agency contract as of 2024-04-19.
Iridium and General Dynamics Mission Systems submitted a proposal to develop system integration, ground systems, facilities, ground stations, and day-to-day network operations for the Space Development Agency’s proliferated LEO constellation.
Iridium is bidding to operate a planned low Earth orbit constellation for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Space Development Agency Transport Layer Tranche 1.
Iridium plans to use a rideshare opportunity in 2022 to launch up to five of the six spare satellites it has been storing in Arizona.
SpaceX launched all 75 satellites for Iridium’s $3,000,000,000 Iridium Next second-generation constellation using Falcon 9 rockets.
Matt Desch disclosed plans to deploy Iridium’s ground spares during the company’s 2022-04-19, first-quarter earnings call.