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McQ Inc. was awarded an AFWERX SBIR Phase II contract to develop a military version of the company’s McQ CONNECT® Iridium Certus® 100 satellite terminal.
All satellites in Iridium’s upgraded constellation were built by Thales Alenia Space and carry the Aireon hosted payload.
SpaceX conducted eight Iridium launches between January 2017 and January 2019.
Iridium Communications reached an agreement with SpaceX to launch up to five of its remaining ground spare satellites from the Iridium NEXT program on a Falcon 9 rocket.
The eight SpaceX launches between January 2017 and January 2019 delivered 75 satellites to low Earth orbit as part of the Iridium NEXT campaign.
Since completion of the upgraded Iridium network in early 2019, Iridium’s customer base grew by more than 730,000 subscribers in three years and has more than 1.8 million subscribers today.
The Iridium-9 launch is planned to take place at Vandenberg Space Force Base in mid-2023.
Iridium’s first launch took place from Vandenberg on 1997-05-05 and carried five Iridium satellites to orbit on a Delta II rocket.
SpaceX conducted eight Iridium launches between January 2017 and January 2019.
The five satellites covered by Iridium’s new $35,000,000 launch contract will not be launched by Relativity.
All satellites in the upgraded Iridium constellation were built by Thales Alenia Space.
Iridium signed a 2020 contract with Relativity Space to launch up to six ground spares on Relativity’s Terran 1 rocket.
Iridium will launch five of its remaining six ground spare satellites on a Falcon 9 rideshare mission in 2023.
Iridium’s second quarter earnings release on 2022-07-26 announced a contract for the launch of five satellites for $35,000,000.
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.
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 indicated in 2023 that it was seeking to launch up to five of the remaining six spare satellites currently in storage in Arizona.
Iridium’s first launch in company history took place from Vandenberg on 1997-05-05.
The Iridium-9 launch is planned to take place at Vandenberg Space Force Base in mid-2023.