Iridium Satellite LLC

Based in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A., a privately held company, 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 company supplies both voice and data connections. Voice services are provided via dedicated handsets, or through a variety of installed communications systems onboard ships, aircraft and land-based vehicles. Increasingly incorporated into hundreds of applications, Iridium's 9601 short burst data (SBD) transceiver provides packet data connections to every corner of the Earth, transferring location information, weather reports, email, or any other data requiring a reliable, global, two-way connection. 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 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.

Handsets

The Iridium 9555

The tough customer chosen by even tougher customers

Iridium 9555 is the latest evolution in our rugged and reliable satellite phones – and it works everywhere. Without exception.

The Iridium 9505A

Small, light and water resistant, the 9505A is designed to travel

Handheld satellite phone that works anywhere in the world. Larger than a typical mobile phone, but still small enough to carry in a backpack. Very simple to use. Uses a familiar GSM dialing sequence. For outdoor use only.