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 ...
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 ...
Join Us in Celebrating as #IridiumTurns20 Twenty years ago, Iridium announced to the world that its innovative satellite network was available for commercial use! Initially launched to service satellite phones and pagers, the Iridium ...
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 ...