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 ...

The concept for Iridium originated in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a Motorola project. The name "Iridium" comes from the chemical element Iridium, which has an atomic number of 77 ...

Liftoff is scheduled for 8:34 p.m. ET tonight (Jan. 29).

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 ...

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.

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

India just launched its first mission of 2025. The Indian Space Research Organisation 's (ISRO) Geosynchronous Satellite ...

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 ...

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 ...

India successfully launched into orbit on Wednesday a new navigation satellite aboard a home-grown rocket, strengthening its ...