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Iridium’s first launch took place from Vandenberg on 1997-05-05 and carried five Iridium satellites to orbit on a Delta II rocket.
Iridium’s first launch in company history took place from Vandenberg on 1997-05-05.
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.
Matt Desch disclosed plans to deploy Iridium’s ground spares during the company’s 2022-04-19, first-quarter earnings call.
Iridium reported first-quarter 2022 revenue of $168.2 million, a 15% increase compared with the same period in 2021.
Satelles raised $26,000,000 in its latest funding round in 2019 with participation from Iridium to expand marketing efforts and accelerate product development.
Iridium secured $1,800,000,000 of relatively low-interest, long-term ECA-backed debt in 2010.
The Falcon 9 first stage that landed first flew in 2018-09-01 launching the Telstar 18 Vantage satellite, flew the final Iridium mission in 2019-01-01, and launched four Starlink missions beginning in 2019-05-01, most recently on 2020-08-18.
Iridium plans to invest around $10–12 million over the next three years to upgrade a gateway station in Hawaii dedicated to U.S. government services.
Iridium plans to launch the final 10 Iridium Next satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in November.
Iridium spent $132,000,000 in capital expenditures in the past three months, most of it on Iridium Next.
Aireon raised $69,000,000 from NATS to begin making hosting payments to Iridium Communications.