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    Iridium wins contract to develop hosted payload for Low Earth Orbit

    by Mihir Neal June 24, 2021
    written by Mihir Neal

    Iridium has secured a $30 million research and development contract with the United States Army to develop a payload which will support the concept of a rapidly deployable small satellite constellation, with the goal of providing more effective data transmission to the soldiers in the field.

    The payload will be hosted by another Low Earth Orbit commercial satellite constellation and used alongside Iridium’s existing network. Although the partner is not yet announced, it could include mega-constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink, Amazon’s upcoming Project Kuiper, or satellites of the OneWeb and ViaSat constellations.

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    Relativity Space to Launch Iridium Satellites from New Vandenberg Launch Site

    by Thomas Burghardt June 24, 2020
    June 24, 2020

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    Iridium marks major milestone with maritime safety, breaks monopoly

    by Chris Gebhardt January 23, 2020
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    Exploring what’s next for Iridium after final NEXT constellation launch

    by Chris Gebhardt January 18, 2019
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    by Chris Gebhardt January 11, 2019
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    by William Graham July 25, 2018
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    Falcon 9 launches Iridium NEXT 6 and GRACE-FO

    by Chris Bergin May 22, 2018
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    SpaceX Falcon 9 conducts static fire ahead of Iridium NEXT-6/GRACE-FO mission

    by Ian Atkinson May 18, 2018
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    by William Graham March 29, 2018
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    Satellites for the fifth Iridium NEXT launch arrive at Vandenberg

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    by Chris Gebhardt January 22, 2018
    January 22, 2018

    Iridium Communications Inc. has announced the target launch date for their fifth flight aboard a…

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    by William Graham December 22, 2017
    December 22, 2017

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    Iridium NEXT-4 on track for December launch from Vandenberg

    by Chris Gebhardt November 28, 2017
    November 28, 2017

    While SpaceX continues to investigate a payload fairing issue, the company’s only two confirmed December…

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    Iridium-4 switches to flight-proven Falcon 9, RTLS at Vandenberg delayed

    by Chris Gebhardt October 19, 2017
    October 19, 2017

    Iridium Communications – in the midst of launching their next generation communications constellation – has…

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    SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launches third set of Iridium-NEXT satellites

    by William Graham October 8, 2017
    October 8, 2017

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base Monday, before succcessfully deploying…

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    Iridium marks new satellite network, 20 healthy satellites & 55 more to launch

    by Chris Gebhardt July 7, 2017
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    With just 20 satellites of the Iridium Next constellation in orbit, Iridium Communications’ six remaining…

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    SpaceX Doubleheader Part 2 – Falcon 9 conducts Iridium NEXT-2 launch

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