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ABOUT Iridium Satellite LLC
Iridium Satellite LLC, a privately held company, Based in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A. it is the only provider of truly global satellite voice and data communications solutions with complete coverage of the entire Earth including oceans, airways and even Polar Regions.
Iridium delivers reliable, secure, real-time, mission-critical communications services to and from areas where landlines and terrestrial-based wireless services are either unavailable or unreliable.
Iridium's constellation consists of 66 low-earth orbiting (LEO), cross-linked satellites operating as a fully meshed network and supported by multiple in-orbit spares. It is the largest commercial satellite constellation in the world.
The Iridium service is ideally suited for industries such as maritime, aviation, government/military, emergency/humanitarian services, mining, forestry, oil and gas, heavy equipment, transportation and utilities.
For example, tens of thousands of aircraft are currently equipped with Iridium-based systems and nearly half of the traffic on the Iridium network comes from international waters. Iridium provides service to subscribers from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), as well as other civil and government agencies around the world.
The company also designs, builds and sells its products, solutions and services through a worldwide network of hundreds of partners.
Iridium's most rapidly expanding business segment is the machine-to-machine sector, in which the Iridium constellation provides mobile data links for asset tracking and other monitoring applications.
Iridium is a profitable company and has been since 2004. Business is growing at an impressive rate with the constant acquisition of new customers and partners both domestically and abroad in some of the furthest reaches of the planet. These individuals recognize the value of a system that is global, secure and guaranteed to work.
Iridium is also planning for the future sustainability of its constellation, making major investments in network enhancements and launching the Iridium NEXT initiative, its next generation satellite constellation, which will be fully operational by 2016.
HISTORY
THE IDEA
Iridium plans to be the provider of mission critical voice and data communications in more places than any other provider in the world. With satellites that literally cover every inch of the planet, Iridium can connect a caller or device from any location on the Earth's surface to any other place in the world, offering a truly unique value proposition distinguishing the Iridium service from every other satellite communications provider in existence.
While there is competition for some of the capabilities we provide in certain parts of the world, Iridium strives to go beyond every other mobile satellite service as the one provider that can be relied upon, everywhere, no matter what.
With our current constellation forecasted to provide reliable service through 2014, we are in the midst of creating Iridium NEXT - our next generation replacement constellation of satellites that will be launched starting in 2013 to provide reliable service through at least 2030. Iridium NEXT will provide a seamless transition from today's services to new capabilities, including higher bandwidth, new user devices and technology, and new partnerships for sharing satellite capacity and payload.
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ABOUT Iridium Satellite LLC
Iridium Satellite LLC, a privately held company, Based in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A. it is the only provider of truly global satellite voice and data communications solutions with complete coverage of the entire Earth including oceans, airways and even Polar Regions.
Iridium delivers reliable, secure, real-time, mission-critical communications services to and from areas where landlines and terrestrial-based wireless services are either unavailable or unreliable.
Iridium's constellation consists of 66 low-earth orbiting (LEO), cross-linked satellites operating as a fully meshed network and supported by multiple in-orbit spares. It is the largest commercial satellite constellation in the world.
The Iridium service is ideally suited for industries such as maritime, aviation, government/military, emergency/humanitarian services, mining, forestry, oil and gas, heavy equipment, transportation and utilities.
For example, tens of thousands of aircraft are currently equipped with Iridium-based systems and nearly half of the traffic on the Iridium network comes from international waters. Iridium provides service to subscribers from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), as well as other civil and government agencies around the world.
The company also designs, builds and sells its products, solutions and services through a worldwide network of hundreds of partners.
Iridium's most rapidly expanding business segment is the machine-to-machine sector, in which the Iridium constellation provides mobile data links for asset tracking and other monitoring applications.
Iridium is a profitable company and has been since 2004. Business is growing at an impressive rate with the constant acquisition of new customers and partners both domestically and abroad in some of the furthest reaches of the planet. These individuals recognize the value of a system that is global, secure and guaranteed to work.
Iridium is also planning for the future sustainability of its constellation, making major investments in network enhancements and launching the Iridium NEXT initiative, its next generation satellite constellation, which will be fully operational by 2016.
HISTORY
- In December 2000, a group of private investors led by Dan Colussy organized and named our company Iridium when they acquired the operating assets of the bankrupt Iridium LLC. This included the satellite constellation, the terrestrial network, Iridium real property and intellectual capital.
- Since its inception, Iridium has steadily grown in customers, markets served and partners. Only Iridium is currently used everywhere. Other key milestones include:
- The 1990s The original Iridium LLC enters Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August 1999.
- December 2000 "Iridium Satellite LLC" acquires Iridium's assets out of bankruptcy. U.S. DoD awards contract.
- March 2001 Iridium begins offering commercial service for mobile voice; shifts company's strategy to vertical markets.
- June 2001 Introduces data and Internet service
THE IDEA
Iridium plans to be the provider of mission critical voice and data communications in more places than any other provider in the world. With satellites that literally cover every inch of the planet, Iridium can connect a caller or device from any location on the Earth's surface to any other place in the world, offering a truly unique value proposition distinguishing the Iridium service from every other satellite communications provider in existence.
While there is competition for some of the capabilities we provide in certain parts of the world, Iridium strives to go beyond every other mobile satellite service as the one provider that can be relied upon, everywhere, no matter what.
With our current constellation forecasted to provide reliable service through 2014, we are in the midst of creating Iridium NEXT - our next generation replacement constellation of satellites that will be launched starting in 2013 to provide reliable service through at least 2030. Iridium NEXT will provide a seamless transition from today's services to new capabilities, including higher bandwidth, new user devices and technology, and new partnerships for sharing satellite capacity and payload.
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