The Iridium satellite constellation provides L band voice and data information coverage to satellite phones, satellite messenger communication devices...

Iridium Communications Inc. (formerly Iridium Satellite LLC) is a publicly traded American company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, United States. Iridium...

penultimate Iridium Next mission". 25 July 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2018. Stephen Clark [@StephenClark1] (14 May 2018). "Iridium's Desch: Launch next week will...

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...

fifth Iridium NEXT mission". NASASpaceFlight.com. Retrieved 27 March 2018. "Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with fifth set of Iridium Next satellites"...

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...

January 2017, Aireon launched and deployed its first ADS-B payloads on Iridium Next satellites. Seven launches followed the first launch. The eighth and...

Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) EchoStar 23 Euclid GPS IIIA launches Iridium NEXT constellation Launches for the US National Reconnaissance Office, NROL...

was switched to a Falcon-9 v1.2 subcontracted from Iridium, flying together with five Iridium-NEXT satellites in December 2017. Krebs, Gunter. "Paz"....

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...

their data. Iridium NEXT Under a contract with Thales Alenia Space, Orbital is conducting integration and test services for Iridium NEXT, the next-generation...

the original on 19 May 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2024. "Iridium Announces Ninth SpaceX Launch". Iridium Communications (Press release). 8 September 2022. Archived...

bankruptcy in August 1999. In 2001, service was re-established by Iridium Satellite LLC. Iridium NEXT, a second-generation constellation of the communications...

fixed-price contract to manufacture a total of 81 satellites for Iridium Communications' NEXT satellite telephony network. It is also engaged in producing...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) receivers installed as an additional payload on 66 Iridium NEXT second-generation satellites launched between 2017 and 2019. Nav Canada...

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...

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...

partnership with L3Harris Corporation with 58 hosted payloads on the Iridium NEXT constellation. Additionally exactEarth is involved in the development...

2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017. Gebhardt, Chris (19 October 2017). "Iridium-4 switches to flight-proven Falcon 9, RTLS at Vandenberg delayed". NASASpaceFlight...

satellites). These projects were abandoned after the bankruptcy of the Iridium and Globalstar satellite phone constellations in the early 2000s. In the...

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...

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...

glide towards a gentle touchdown on water. On the 25 June 2017 flight (Iridium NEXT 11–20), aluminum grid fins were replaced by titanium versions, to improve...

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...

SpaceNews. Retrieved 24 June 2020. Krebs, Gunter (8 September 2022). "Iridium-NEXT". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 8 September 2022. "Relativity and OneWeb...

v t e ← 2018 Orbital launches in 2019 2020 → January ChinaSat 2D Iridium NEXT × 10 RAPIS-1, ALE-1, Hodoyoshi-2, MicroDragon, AOBA-VELOX-IV, NEXUS, OrigamiSat-1...