Our Vision

Iridium seeks to be the provider of mission critical voice and data communications in more places than any other provider in the world. With satellites that literally cover every inch of the planet, Iridium can connect a caller or device from any location on the Earth's surface to any other place in the world, offering a truly unique value proposition distinguishing the Iridium service from every other satellite communications provider in existence.

While there is competition for some of the capabilities we provide in certain parts of the world, Iridium strives to go beyond every other mobile satellite service as the one provider that can be relied upon, everywhere, no matter what.

With our current constellation forecasted to provide reliable service through 2014, we are in the midst of creating Iridium NEXT - our next generation replacement constellation of satellites that will be launched starting in 2013 to provide reliable service through at least 2030. Iridium NEXT will provide a seamless transition from today's services to new capabilities, including higher bandwidth, new user devices and technology, and new partnerships for sharing satellite capacity and payload.