A Canadian woman was recently detained and fined for carrying a GPS device at Goa airport, an incident with established ...

Just as we are reckoning with how to conserve ecosystems on Earth for future living creatures, we must think of space as an ...

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.

Iridium is a mobile satellite service company that aims to strengthen voice and data services for areas uncovered by earthbound communication networks. The company collaborates with commercial ...

Update by the edhat staff January 24, 2025 On Friday at 6:07 a.m., Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth ...

Uncontrolled satellites: Defunct satellites remain in orbit, adding to the growing congestion. 1. Iridium-Kosmos collision (2009) The collision between an active Iridium communication satellite ...

On January 17, China successfully launched the Lantan-1 satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center using a Long March-2D carrier rocket. The satellite entered its designated orbit, marking t..