And so we were back to seven launches of ten. That was seventy satellites, and that didn’t give us enough spares in orbit.” This led Iridium back to SpaceX to work on a creative approach ...

Satellite company signs mobile providers. Satellite communications company, Iridium, has signed its first UK service provision agreements in preparation for the launch of its global network in ...

Opportunistic navigation using low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites is an ... a method that fuses Doppler information from Iridium NEXT and Orbcomm satellites to improve positioning accuracy.

Aireon needed a lot of low-orbit satellites to ensure you are in range no matter where you are. Piggybacking on Iridium gives them coverage at a fraction of the cost of building their own satellites.

It is unlikely that as a young lad [Richard Jenkins] would had have visions of sailing into the eye of a Category-4 hurricane. Yet that’s exactly what he’s done with the Explorer 1045, an ...

depicts an approximation of 12 000 objects in orbit around the Earth. A communications satellite belonging to US company Iridium has collided with a disused Russian military satellite, on February ...

The vehicle, which includes the flight-proven booster 1041.2, will lift the fifth batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites into a 625 km polar orbit. The static fire test was conducted near the 7 AM ...

such as the Iridium satellite constellation, operators often maintain one or more spares on orbit. This becomes complicated ...