A Risk that Paid Off – Looking Back a Year Later at the Success of Iridium® NEXT (Image: The first Iridium NEXT launch on January 14, 2017. Credit: Iridium) One year ago today, Iridium declared victory and completed its $3 billion satellite constellation upgrade. It ...
Iridium NEXT: In Review Iridium® NEXT has been a historic mission here at Iridium, and in the space industry as a whole! Our team was able to completely replace the original Iridium ...
The Butterfly – The Eighth & Final Iridium® NEXT Launch Patch Decoded A symbol of endurance, change, hope and life, the butterfly is a physical representation of transformation. Iridium is about to complete its own technological and financial transformation with ...
Iridium-8 is Vertical for Launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base Iridium Communications, in partnership with SpaceX, is prepared to launch the final 10 Iridium® NEXT satellites tomorrow, January 11th. SpaceX will launch the eighth set of new satellites ...
Oops. We Did It Again… Introducing the Iridium®-8 Launch Soundtrack It’s the grand finale. The final flight of our epic eight launch program with SpaceX is fast approaching. For our seventh launch we introduced a first-of-its-kind soundtrack curated ...
Help Us Build the Iridium NEXT Launch 8 Spotify Playlist! 2018 has already been an epic year for Iridium…and we’ve still got three months left! We’ve surpassed one million active subscribers, announced Iridium CloudConnect with Amazon Web Services, received ...
A Day in the Life of an Iridium SNOC Engineer Ever wonder what it’s like to work at our Satellite Network Operations Center (SNOC)? Satellite Systems Engineer Ken Rock took us behind the scenes in August, giving us ...
What is a Hosted Payload? When reading about Iridium, you may have noticed that the phrase “hosted payload” has been popping up a bunch, especially when talking about our recent Iridium NEXT launches. But ...
Saying #flarewell to Iridium Flares with ‘Catch the Iridium’ Founder Samuele Pinna As we say #flarewell to our Block 1 satellites and make way to the future of Iridium® NEXT, Iridium Flare fan Samuele Pinna is seeking to catch a photo ...
Eighth Grade Tech Trek Campers Experience Iridium® NEXT Launch As part of our commitment to empowering the future generation of the space industry, we were thrilled to share the experience of last week’s Iridium® NEXT Launch 7 ...
