Q&A with Iridium CEO, Matt Desch – 15 Questions to Celebrate 15 Years 15 years ago, on September 21, 2006, Matt Desch became Iridium’s Chief Executive Officer. After cycling though five CEOs in five years, Iridium welcomed Matt, who proceeded to ...
How Iridium and Aireon are Transforming Aviation #NationalAviationDay Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) offers real-time air traffic surveillance, enabling shared situational awareness and advanced applications for pilots and air traffic controllers (ATC). Although aviation stakeholders have been ...
How the Iridium® Network is Used to Support Environmental Protection Today Iridium celebrates the 50th annual Earth Day and wanted to share some of the innovative ways that our network is being used to help support the planet ...
A Risk that Paid Off – Looking Back a Year Later at the Success of Iridium® NEXT (Image: The first Iridium NEXT launch on January 14, 2017. Credit: Iridium) One year ago today, Iridium declared victory and completed its $3 billion satellite constellation upgrade. It ...
What is a Hosted Payload? When reading about Iridium, you may have noticed that the phrase “hosted payload” has been popping up a bunch, especially when talking about our recent Iridium NEXT launches. But ...
Third Set of Iridium® NEXT Satellites Arrive in Orbit and Provide Telemetry Iridium Communications announced today that the third set of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites, launched Monday by SpaceX, are functioning nominally and have begun the testing and validation process. ...
