How Iridium and Aireon are Transforming Aviation #NationalAviationDay
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) offers real-time air traffic surveillance, enabling shared situational awareness and advanced applications for pilots and air traffic controllers (ATC). Although aviation stakeholders have been using ADS-B technology...
How the Iridium® Network is Used to Support Environmental Protection
Today Iridium celebrates the 50th annual Earth Day and wanted to share some of the innovative ways that our network is being used to help support the planet we all call home. As the world’s only truly global satellite communications network, Iridium connects people,...
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 what exactly does that mean, and why is it so important? First things first – what is a...
Third Set of Iridium® NEXT Satellites Arrive in Orbit and Provide Telemetry
Iridium Communications announced today that the third set of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites, launched Monday by SpaceX, are functioning nominally and have begun the testing and validation process. This batch of 10 satellites was launched out of Vandenberg Air Force Base...
Aireon and Exelis — A visionary partnership
Aireon is excited to announce that it reached another important milestone last week when it signed a 17-year, $42 million agreement with Exelis.