How To Turn Your Cell Phone Into A Satellite Phone Mobile device innovation has made it easier for us to stay constantly connected. We expect our phone to always work, but that’s often not the case. Cellular networks ...
Mack Rutherford is on a Mission to Become the Youngest Person to Fly Around the World Solo At 16, Mack Rutherford is hoping to become the youngest person to fly around the world solo. Mack’s sister Zara recently became the youngest woman to circumnavigate the ...
Live On-the-Move Video Over Iridium Certus® Iridium and AnsuR have formally partnered to optimize live video over Iridium Certus®. Our teams first demonstrated this capability during Operation Arctic Lynx (OAL), an internationally coordinated field ...
Sharing Stories at Sea with IMOCA Skipper Romain Attanasio “We are racing all around the world without anyone around. The only way we can do this is thanks to this reliable communication system (Thales VesseLINK™ 700).” ...
Airplanes and Drones and Helicopters, Oh My! How Iridium® connectivity is safely and reliably connecting an evolving, diverse global airspace Ever wonder how a plane that is flying 400-500 miles per hour, 30,000 feet off ...
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 ...
A Final #Flarewell Who Wants to Geek Out with us and Learn How to Deorbit a Satellite!? As many of you know, the bittersweet time has come for Iridium to deorbit ...
Iridium Certus as a 5G Companion for Land Mobile Communications The launch of Iridium CertusSM comes at an exciting time for the mobile communications world. As satellite communications continue to evolve and improve, so do terrestrial options – ...
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 ...
