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 ...
Q&A with Hearts in the Ice Founders Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Falun Strom Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Falun Strom are explorers, adventurers, polar ambassadors and citizen scientists with over 20 years’ experience each in the polar regions. In 2017 they started ...
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 Connects Last Chance to Paint Iridium Connects Last Chance to Paint Combining the power of art and technology to connect classrooms with threatened ecosystems About the author: John Dyer is the founder of ...
ESTEM Antarctica goes Iridium GO! Guest Blogger: Nuno Sidónio Andrade Pereira, Polytechnic Institute of Beja – Portugal February 8, 2019. We land in King George island, South Shetland, Antarctica Peninsula. The sky was grey (as usual), ...
Iridium Celebrates World Ocean Day with a Look at Key Maritime Initiatives The surface of our planet is approximately 70 percent water, with vast swathes of blue covering the Earth. The oceans seem akin to a blue desert, and even ...
One Million Subscribers Connected: Iridium® PTT a “Game Changer” for On-the-Move Communications To celebrate reaching one million active subscribers, Iridium will be featuring the success stories of our customers in the range of markets we serve: land, maritime, aviation, IoT, ...
Part 3: Pushing the Limits of Aviation – Iridium® Simplifies the “Search” in “Search and Rescue” It’s impossible to anticipate emergency situations before embarking on an adventure, but it’s critical to always be prepared to handle one. In the instance of Sergey Ananov, a ...
Part 2: Pushing the Limits of Aviation – Locating a Moving Refueling Station in the Arctic Ocean While it may seem like a given, if you’re flying a helicopter and it runs out of fuel, the engine immediately shuts off. This poses a serious problem ...
Part 1: Pushing the Limits of Aviation – A North Pole Helicopter Expedition Relies on Iridium® A helicopter expedition to the three North Poles (geographic, magnetic, and the northern pole of inaccessibility) – an incredible adventure or near-impossible feat? Depends who you ask. For ...
