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 ...

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 ...

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