Iridium

Iot Business news | April 05, 2018

50 Iridium NEXT Satellites Are Now in Orbit as Iridium Nears Completion of New Global Communications Network. Iridium Communications Inc. announced that SpaceX successfully launched the fifth set of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All 10 new satellites have successfully communicated with the Iridium Satellite Network Operations Center and are preparing to begin testing. Shortly before launch, the Iridium network met a major milestone as it surp...

IoT Evolution World | October 01, 2018

Iridium Communications recently announced that it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) and has been collaborating with AWS on the development of Iridium CloudConnect, a satellite cloud-based solution designed to offer global coverage for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Planned for launch in 2019, this new Iridium service will make Iridium IoT services available with AWS IoT, extending the reach of AWS’s suite of services to the more than 80 percent of the E...

channelnews | July 31, 2019

Iridium CloudConnect, a partnership between satellite operator Iridium and AWS, and billed as “the first and only satellite cloud-based solution that offers truly global coverage for IoT applications,” is set to go live in September, according to a report in Capacity Media.The Web site quotes Iridium CEO Matt Desch saying that the service will be live by the end of the third quarter this year.The service was announced in September 2018, with Iridium saying “Iridium CloudConnect...

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Iridium | December 28, 2022

Cloud-native networked data services offer features such as scalability, flexibility, cost efficiency, high availability, and security and are designed to be used in cloud computing environments. With breakthrough innovations such as Iridium Messaging Transport (IMT), which enables the transmission of messages between devices or systems using the Iridium satellite network, organizations can get global coverage, low latency, high reliability, and robust security. Iridium Communicat...