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Iridium

US
commercial
NASDAQ: IRDM
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Iridium reported Q4 total revenue of $194.7 million, consisting of $148,000,000 of service revenue and $46,700,000 of revenue related to equipment sales and engineering and support projects.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL2/20/2024Forrester’s Digest: Intelsat + FAST channels — Iridium — AST SpaceMobile — SpaceX

Iridium reported Q4 net income of $38,000,000 for the most recent quarter, compared to a net loss of $800,000 for the same period in 2022.

NARRATIVE GENERAL2/20/2024Forrester’s Digest: Intelsat + FAST channels — Iridium — AST SpaceMobile — SpaceX

Iridium is seeking an update to terrestrial network protocols to enable its existing satellites to connect to standard user devices using globally approved L-band spectrum and aims to deploy messaging and SOS services from 2026.

NARRATIVE GROWTH2/15/2024Iridium adds five years to constellation lifetime estimate

Iridium reported service revenue of $584,500,000 for 2023 and expects service revenue growth of 4–6% for 2024.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL2/15/2024Iridium adds five years to constellation lifetime estimate

Iridium reported total revenue of $790,700,000 for 2023, a 10% increase year-on-year.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL2/15/2024Iridium adds five years to constellation lifetime estimate

Ligado paused its plans to deploy the terrestrial network in 2022 after a review by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concluded the network would likely interfere with some GPS signals and Iridium’s L-band connectivity services.

NARRATIVE GROWTH2/12/2024Iridium weighs in on Ligado’s lawsuit against US government

Iridium Communications reported a net loss of $30.7 million, or $0.24 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2023.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL7/26/2023Iridium 2Q 2023 results + a record operational EBITDA

Iridium Communications reported total revenue of $193,100,000 for the second quarter of 2023.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL7/26/2023Iridium 2Q 2023 results + a record operational EBITDA

Iridium and its ecosystem partners are developing new Iridium Certus offerings with additional terminal launches and announcements planned later 2023.

NARRATIVE PLAN7/24/2023Iridium launches Iridium Certus for aviation connectivity

Since DEUCSI began in 2017, companies that have won contracts under the program include Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Ball Aerospace, SES, Iridium, and SpaceX.

ORG RELATIONSHIP5/26/2023L3Harris wins $80 million Air Force contract for satcom experiments

Iridium held a contract for up to six Terran 1 launches of replacement satellites and contracted five of those remaining spares to SpaceX in September 2022, leaving at most one launch with Relativity.

NARRATIVE GENERAL4/12/2023Relativity shelves Terran 1 after one launch, redesigns Terran R

Commercial service revenue was Iridium Communications’ largest source of revenue and totaled $429,000,000 in 2022.

NARRATIVE GENERAL2/17/2023Iridium Posts Double-Digit Revenue Increase in 2022, Surpasses 2M Subscribers

Iridium Communications’ commercial service revenue of $429,000,000 in 2022 represented a 10% increase from 2021.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL2/17/2023Iridium Posts Double-Digit Revenue Increase in 2022, Surpasses 2M Subscribers

Iridium Communications reported a net loss of $9,300,000 in 2021, or $0.07 per diluted share.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL2/17/2023Iridium Posts Double-Digit Revenue Increase in 2022, Surpasses 2M Subscribers

Iridium Communications reported government service revenue of approximately $106,000,000 in 2022, a 2% increase from 2021.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL2/17/2023Iridium Posts Double-Digit Revenue Increase in 2022, Surpasses 2M Subscribers

Iridium Communications reported record revenue of $614,500,000 for full-year 2021.

NARRATIVE GENERAL2/17/2023Iridium Posts Double-Digit Revenue Increase in 2022, Surpasses 2M Subscribers

Iridium Communications reported full-year 2022 revenue of $721,000,000.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL2/17/2023Iridium Posts Double-Digit Revenue Increase in 2022, Surpasses 2M Subscribers

Iridium Communications reported government service revenue of approximately $106,000,000 in 2022, a 2% increase from 2021.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL2/17/2023Iridium Posts Double-Digit Revenue Increase in 2022, Surpasses 2M Subscribers

Iridium’s operational EBITDA increased 8% to nearly $108,000,000 for the three months to the end of September, a record for the operator.

NARRATIVE GENERAL10/21/2022Iridium sheds more light on direct-to-smartphone plan

Beam Communications Holdings Ltd. received a new order worth approximately $2,500,000 from Iridium Communications Inc. for the manufacturing of Iridium GO! devices.

ORG RELATIONSHIP10/7/2022Beam garners a million$ order from Iridium
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