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Satelles has been providing assured PNT services to back up GNSS since 2016 over Iridium’s satellites in low Earth orbit.
DoD signed a seven-year agreement in 2019 with Iridium Communications for unlimited use of Iridium’s mobile communications constellation.
General Dynamics Mission Systems (NYSE: GD) and Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) were awarded a $324,516,613 contract by the Space Development Agency to establish the ground Operations and Integration segment for Tranche 1 of the National Defense Space Architecture.
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 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 pursued the Space Development Agency contract as of 2024-04-19.
Iridium is negotiating a potential $35,000,000 launch deal for the deployment of its ground spare satellites.
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 lofted the latest batch of 10 Iridium Next satellites in early 2019 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Matt Desch disclosed plans to deploy Iridium’s ground spares during the company’s 2022-04-19, first-quarter earnings call.
SpaceX launched all 75 satellites for Iridium’s $3,000,000,000 Iridium Next second-generation constellation using Falcon 9 rockets.
Iridium reported first-quarter 2022 revenue of $168.2 million, a 15% increase compared with the same period in 2021.
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 expects the U.S. government to award a contract to operate the Space Development Agency Transport Layer Tranche 1 constellation in 2022.
Collins Aerospace’s Iridium SATCOM solution will provide business aviation and air transport customers with faster speeds, lower weight, and a smaller antenna footprint than legacy SATCOM systems, enabling minimum drag and lower power usage.
Collins Aerospace completed multiple tests in 2020 and 2021 in which its ALGA and HGA successfully connected to and transmitted data to an orbiting Iridium satellite.
Collins Aerospace’s Iridium Connected aviation terminals will enable commercial, business, and government aircraft to receive graphical weather updates, transmit aircraft telematics, and provide future cockpit safety services at the higher speeds of Iridium Certus.
Iridium Certus 700 delivers high-speed L-band connectivity regardless of a vessel’s location at sea.
The Iridium NEXT satellite network supports SKYTRAC’s avionics with resilient connectivity.