Some industry leaders said new low-Earth orbit satellites may create a larger attack surface for cyber threat actors, Via Satellite reported Friday. Read more
Satelles, a Reston, Va.-based satellite time and location services provider, has raised $26M in a round of Series C financing led by C5 Capital and will use the investment to advance product... Read more
Iridium Communications has revealed the first batch of beta partners for the development of devices based on the company’s Certus 9770 transceiver. Read more
Iridium Communications and Amazon Web Services are set to deploy a satellite cloud-based offering for internet-of-things users in September, Capacity Media reported Monday. Read more
Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch said he believes the industry needs new regulations that would mitigate failed satellites and other space debris in orbit, Space Intel Report reported W... Read more
Iridium Communications has received a Mobile Satellite Users Association award for a satellite-powered global broadband service that facilitates wireless communications for government agenci... Read more
Iridium Communications received a four-and-a-half-year, $54M contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to continue to provide maintenance and support services for the Department o... Read more
A senior official at Amazon Web Services has said the company is working with industry partners to promote and expand the services of the new AWS Ground Station that gives customers the abil... Read more
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 11, 2019 — Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has hired Suzi McBride, most recently chief operating officer of OneWeb who served as a vice president at Iridium... Read more
Iridium Communications on Wednesday declared the completion of the $3B Iridium NEXT satellite constellation at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. "The com... Read more
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Matthew Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of most influential voices i... Read more
Iridium Communications has unveiled its L-band broadband service powered by the company’s $3B Iridium NEXT satellite network. The company said Wednesday initial activations of the Iridium Ce... Read more
Iridium Communications’ final and eighth batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites launched Friday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard SpaceX’s previously flown Falcon 9 rocket. Ir... Read more
Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has expressed confidence that SpaceX will stage its final launch of the Iridium Next communications satellites on Friday following delays in the project... Read more
Matt Desch on Iridium NEXT, Partnership With SpaceX
Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications and a 2019 Wash100 award recipient, told Bloomberg in an audio interview posted Tuesday about the company’s use of SpaceX-built rockets and the role... Read more