Talk:Iridium satellite constellation

Split satellite

I think the satellite design section should be a separate article. 76.66.196.229 (talk) 12:57, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Don't see how the design of the satellites are notable in and of themselves and how the design is not influenced by the constellation. Vegaswikian (talk) 17:56, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Removed discussion tags (Courageousrobot (talk) 02:40, 21 April 2009 (UTC))

poor market research

Should this article mention how the company originally went bankrupt due to poor market research? The system was then bought by the US government. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.137.245.206 (talk) 21:24, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

No, that is in the company article. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:55, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Their service was restarted in 2001 by the newly founded Iridium Satellite LLC, which was owned by a group of private investors. The system is being used extensively by the U.S. Department of Defense through the DoD gateway in Hawaii. The DoD made up 23% of Iridium's revenues in 2010.Robinrobin (talk) 11:52, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

History

What about a bit more on the history of the project.

95 satellites were built, and 98 were launched

According to the infobox, 95 satellites were built, and 98 were launched. That's a pretty neat trick, how did they do that? 174.24.13.14 (talk) 20:58, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing it out. It appears the values were switched by a user on 10 May 2016 without any sources for the change, so it was likely vandalism.

I've also put a tag the 98 built because unlike the number of satellites launched (95), I had trouble confirming this number. If somebody can verify that 98 were built, feel free to remove the tag.

Cheers,  NeoGeneric 💬  11:09, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Bad References

Reference #5 and #7 "How the Iridium Network Works" to http://www.satphoneusa.com/iridium/ are invalid. I'm not sure where the correct article is located (if it is still available); it is archived at http://archive.is/IafS. Gwbarrett (talk) 15:33, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

"The original design as envisioned in the 1960s "... this date simply doesn't make sense given the system was conceived in 1987. Paragraph still has [citation needed] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Edrandall (talk • contribs) 08:03, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Next-generation satellites

Is any of the Next-generation satellites already in productive usage? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.220.83.86 (talk) 06:29, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

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NEXT satellite characteristics

This page: https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/iridium-next.htm has information about the NEXT satellite (e.g. Mass: 860 kg) which I didn't find in the wiki page. 193.137.102.254 (talk) 18:01, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

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