Iridium
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Iridium Communications (Iridium), a global provider of personal satellite communication, today announced an update to its relationship with Qualcomm Technologies (Qualcomm). -
Iridium Communications has entered into an agreement with Qualcomm Technologies to develop satellite messaging and emergency services in smartphones.
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Satellite company Iridium has created what it calls a first-of-its-kind programme in support of a Smithsonian Institution conservation project.
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Satellite company Iridium is starting an exercise in the Indian and Pacific oceans next week to demonstrate its abilities to the Pentagon and other countries.
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Iridium is to back up its fleet of 75 low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites with another five, though the company insists there isn’t a problem with the existing units.
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It has taken Matt Desch and his colleagues at Iridium 15 years, but the company is now delivering good revenue from a global satellite network. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray
Forthcoming events
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Satellite company Iridium has reduced its quarterly loss to US$5.9 million, compared with $7.9 million in the previous year, and $107.9 million in the same quarter the year before.
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Iridium Communications has appointed Manjula Sriram as the company's new vice president & chief information officer (CIO).
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Deutsche Telekom and satellite company Iridium are making separate moves to increase the accuracy of positioning systems to a few centimetres.
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The US Air Force has emerged as a significant customer for UK/Indian satellite network OneWeb, saying it will use it for Arctic services.
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Satellite company Iridium is to use 3D-printed rockets to launch its six spare satellites when needed.
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Satellite company Iridium, which went into service with its new fleet earlier this year, is to work on combined services with rival operator OneWeb.
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Satellite company Iridium will go live with its Amazon cloud deal by the end of September, CEO Matt Desch has told Capacity.
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We’re moving into the era of telecoms satellites the size of a plastic lunchbox, connecting the IoT or providing voice and data services around the world. Alan Burkitt-Gray talks to some of the companies that will launch an expected 1,000 tiny satellites a year over the next decade
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Iridium has shut down the last of its 20-year-old satellites and put its new, more powerful fleet of 66 satellites into operation.
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Satellite company Iridium has recruited Suzi McBride back to its ranks nearly three years after she left to join rival project OneWeb.
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Iridium is ready to put new $3 billion network into full-scale operation following Friday’s successful launch of the final 10 Iridium Next satellites.
