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 ...
Q&A with Hearts in the Ice Founders Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Falun Strom Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Falun Strom are explorers, adventurers, polar ambassadors and citizen scientists with over 20 years’ experience each in the polar regions. In 2017 they started ...
Q&A with Iridium Principal Engineer Julian Horvath – Winner of the 2019 the SSPI Promise Award Posted by: Kelli Sullivan, Iridium, Public Relations Manager Every year, the Society of Satellite Professionals Internationals (SSPI) Promise Award honors the three top-ranked members of the annual “20 Under 35” ...
A Final #Flarewell Who Wants to Geek Out with us and Learn How to Deorbit a Satellite!? As many of you know, the bittersweet time has come for Iridium to deorbit ...
Iridium Connects Last Chance to Paint Iridium Connects Last Chance to Paint Combining the power of art and technology to connect classrooms with threatened ecosystems About the author: John Dyer is the founder of ...
A Day in the Life of an Iridium 2019 Intern To many, internships mean getting coffee and placing lunch orders, but at Iridium, interns are involved in important projects and tasks from day one! From collaborating on team ...
ESTEM Antarctica goes Iridium GO! Guest Blogger: Nuno Sidónio Andrade Pereira, Polytechnic Institute of Beja - Portugal February 8, 2019. We land in King George island, South Shetland, Antarctica Peninsula. The sky was grey (as usual), ...
Iridium Celebrates World Ocean Day with a Look at Key Maritime Initiatives The surface of our planet is approximately 70 percent water, with vast swathes of blue covering the Earth. The oceans seem akin to a blue desert, and even ...