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    The Iridium satellite constellation provides L band voice and data information coverage to satellite phones, satellite messenger communication devices...
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  • Iridium Communications Inc. (formerly Iridium Satellite LLC) is a publicly traded American company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, United States. Iridium...
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    penultimate Iridium Next mission". 25 July 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2018. Stephen Clark [@StephenClark1] (14 May 2018). "Iridium's Desch: Launch next week will...
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    Iridium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ir and atomic number 77. A very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group, it is...
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    fifth Iridium NEXT mission". NASASpaceFlight.com. Retrieved 27 March 2018. "Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with fifth set of Iridium Next satellites"...
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  • others; in low Earth orbit (LEO) by the SpaceX Starlink system and the Iridium Next satellite series; it is also used in medium Earth orbit (MEO) by the...
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  • January 2017, Aireon launched and deployed its first ADS-B payloads on Iridium Next satellites. Seven launches followed the first launch. The eighth and...
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    Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) EchoStar 23 Euclid GPS IIIA launches Iridium NEXT constellation Launches for the US National Reconnaissance Office, NROL...
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    was switched to a Falcon-9 v1.2 subcontracted from Iridium, flying together with five Iridium-NEXT satellites in December 2017. Krebs, Gunter. "Paz"....
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    the first West Coast booster landing at Vandenberg AFB with the fourth Iridium NEXT satellite launch in December 2017, but ultimately opted for an expendable...
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  • their data. Iridium NEXT Under a contract with Thales Alenia Space, Orbital is conducting integration and test services for Iridium NEXT, the next-generation...
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    the original on 19 May 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2024. "Iridium Announces Ninth SpaceX Launch". Iridium Communications (Press release). 8 September 2022. Archived...
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    bankruptcy in August 1999. In 2001, service was re-established by Iridium Satellite LLC. Iridium NEXT, a second-generation constellation of the communications...
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    fixed-price contract to manufacture a total of 81 satellites for Iridium Communications' NEXT satellite telephony network. It is also engaged in producing...
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    assemble and test 81 satellites for the Iridium NEXT global communications system. In a 2011 press release, Iridium CEO Matt Desch said, "With this contract...
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    were meant to be launched together as secondary payloads on one of the Iridium NEXT flights, but they were instead used for ground-based tests. At the time...
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    Nov. 16, 2018 SpaceX Iridium 4 launch, as seen from Alhambra, Calif. Misrraim Sanchez YouTube video, Dec. 22, 2017 Iridium NEXT IV launch, as seen from...
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    Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) receivers installed as an additional payload on 66 Iridium NEXT second-generation satellites launched between 2017 and 2019. Nav Canada...
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    left to sink after a soft touchdown in the ocean (booster B1036 for the Iridium NEXT 31–40 mission in December 2017). As of 6 August 2018[update], SpaceX...
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    28 January 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2017. SpaceX (14 January 2017), Iridium-1 Hosted Webcast (at 37:30), archived from the original on 8 July 2020...
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    12:47:58 pm PDT (19:47:58 UTC) #IridiumNEXT #HereWeGo" (Tweet) – via Twitter. Clark, Stephen (20 October 2017). "Iridium swaps two new Falcon 9 rockets...
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  • satellites). These projects were abandoned after the bankruptcy of the Iridium and Globalstar satellite phone constellations in the early 2000s. In the...
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    partnership with L3Harris Corporation with 58 hosted payloads on the Iridium NEXT constellation. Additionally exactEarth is involved in the development...
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  • also called Certus Broadband for the low Earth orbit (LEO) Iridium NEXT by operator Iridium ARINC 781 is the standard for a third-generation L-band satellite...
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    Falcon 9 v1.1) and for a third time in January 2017 for the first of the Iridium Next launches. On April 24, 2023, the United States Space Force announced...
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  • Meitnerium (redirect from Eka-Iridium)
    been carried out to confirm that it behaves as the heavier homologue to iridium in group 9 as the seventh member of the 6d series of transition metals...
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    2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017. Gebhardt, Chris (19 October 2017). "Iridium-4 switches to flight-proven Falcon 9, RTLS at Vandenberg delayed". NASASpaceFlight...
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    SpaceNews. Retrieved 24 June 2020. Krebs, Gunter (8 September 2022). "Iridium-NEXT". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 8 September 2022. "Relativity and OneWeb...
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    Retrieved 15 April 2017. "SpaceX Doubleheader Part 2 - Falcon 9 conducts Iridium NEXT-2 launch". 25 June 2017. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020...
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  • Clark, Stephen (24 June 2020). "Relativity books up to six launches for Iridium, reveals plans for Vandenberg pad". Spaceflight Now. Archived from the...
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