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Iridium Communications Inc. (formerly Iridium Satellite LLC) is a publicly traded American company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, United States.[1]

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  1. 105 relations: Adaptive Multi-Rate audio codec, Al Gore, Alexander Graham Bell, Algorithm, Android (operating system), Area codes 602, 480, and 623, Atomic number, Big Dipper, Broadband Global Area Network, Buoy, Burst transmission, Capital cost, Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code, Chemical element, Chief executive officer, Chief financial officer, Chief operating officer, CNN, Cobham (company), Communications satellite, Country code, Data compression, Data-rate units, David S. Rohde, DeLorme, Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, Earth, Eutelsat OneWeb, Falcon 9, Federal Aviation Administration, Fire sale, Future Air Navigation System, G.729, Garmin, Gilbert M. Grosvenor, Global Maritime Distress and Safety System, Globalsat Group, Globalstar, Gonets, Greenhill & Co., Ground station, Hosted payload, Inmarsat, Inter-satellite service, Internet Low Bitrate Codec, Internet of things, Iridium, Iridium 33, Iridium satellite constellation, Ka band, ... Expand index (55 more) »

  2. 2009 initial public offerings
  3. Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1999
  4. Data collection satellites
  5. Satellite telephony

Adaptive Multi-Rate audio codec

The Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR, AMR-NB or GSM-AMR) audio codec is an audio compression format optimized for speech coding.

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Al Gore

Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton.

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Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell (born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.

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Algorithm

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Area codes 602, 480, and 623

Area codes 602, 480, and 623 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for most of the Phoenix metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Atomic number

The atomic number or nuclear charge number (symbol Z) of a chemical element is the charge number of an atomic nucleus.

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Big Dipper

The Big Dipper (US, Canada) or the plough (UK, Ireland) is a large asterism consisting of seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major; six of them are of second magnitude and one, Megrez (δ), of third magnitude.

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Broadband Global Area Network

The Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) is a global satellite network with telephony owned by Inmarsat using portable terminals. Iridium Communications and Broadband Global Area Network are satellite Internet access and satellite telephony.

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Buoy

A buoy is a floating device that can have many purposes.

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Burst transmission

In telecommunication, a burst transmission or data burst is the broadcast of a relatively high-bandwidth transmission over a short period.

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Capital cost

Capital costs are fixed, one-time expenses incurred on the purchase of land, buildings, construction, and equipment used in the production of goods or in the rendering of services.

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Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code

Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (Title 11 of the United States Code) permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States.

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Chemical element

A chemical element is a chemical substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by chemical reactions.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Chief financial officer

A chief financial officer (CFO), also known as a treasurer, is an officer of a company or organization who is assigned the primary responsibility for making decisions for the company for projects and its finances (financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financial reporting, and often the analysis of data).

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Chief operating officer

A chief operating officer (COO) (or chief operations officer) is an executive in charge of the daily operations of an organization (i.e. personnel, resources, and logistics).

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Cobham (company)

Cobham Limited is a British aerospace manufacturing company based in Bournemouth, England.

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Communications satellite

A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth.

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Country code

A country code is a short alphanumeric identification code for countries and dependent areas.

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Data compression

In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.

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Data-rate units

In telecommunications, data transfer rate is the average number of bits (bitrate), characters or symbols (baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system.

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David S. Rohde

David Stephenson Rohde (born August 7, 1967) is an American author and investigative journalist, he is the former online news director for The New Yorker and now serves as Senior Executive Editor, National Security, for NBC News.

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DeLorme

DeLorme Publishing Company is a producer of personal satellite tracking, messaging, and navigation technology.

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Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization

A company's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (commonly abbreviated EBITDA, pronounced) is a measure of a company's profitability of the operating business only, thus before any effects of indebtedness, state-mandated payments, and costs required to maintain its asset base.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Eutelsat OneWeb

Eutelsat OneWeb (legally Network Access Associates Ltd.) is a subsidiary of Eutelsat Group providing broadband satellite Internet services in low Earth orbit (LEO). Iridium Communications and Eutelsat OneWeb are communications satellite operators, satellite Internet access and satellite telephony.

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Falcon 9

Falcon 9 is a partially reusable, human-rated, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX.

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation which regulates civil aviation in the United States and surrounding international waters.

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Fire sale

A fire sale is the sale of goods at extremely discounted prices.

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Future Air Navigation System

The Future Air Navigation System (FANS) is an avionics system which provides direct data link communication between the pilot and the air traffic controller.

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G.729

G.729 is a royalty-free narrow-band vocoder-based audio data compression algorithm using a frame length of 10 milliseconds.

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Garmin

Garmin Ltd. (shortened to Garmin, stylized as GARMIN, and formerly known as ProNav) is an American, Swiss-domiciled multinational technology company founded in 1989 by Gary Burrell and Min Kao in Lenexa, Kansas, United States, with operational headquarters in Olathe, Kansas.

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Gilbert M. Grosvenor

Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (born May 5, 1931) is the former president and chairman of the National Geographic Society, who previously served as the editor of National Geographic magazine.

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Global Maritime Distress and Safety System

The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) is a worldwide system for automated emergency signal communication for ships at sea developed by the United Nations' International Maritime Organization (IMO) as part of the SOLAS Convention.

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Globalsat Group

Globalsat Group is a consortium of companies providing satellite communication services worldwide with headquarters located in the United States. Iridium Communications and Globalsat Group are satellite Internet access and satellite telephony.

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Globalstar

Globalstar, Inc. is an American satellite communications company that operates a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation for satellite phone, low-speed data communications and earth observations. Iridium Communications and Globalstar are communications satellite operators, mobile phone companies of the United States and satellite telephony.

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Gonets

Gonets (Russian Гонец, for Messenger) is a Russian civilian low Earth orbit communications satellite system. Iridium Communications and Gonets are communications satellite operators.

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Greenhill & Co.

Greenhill & Co., Inc. is an American investment banking advisory firm founded in 1996 by Robert F. Greenhill.

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Ground station

A ground station, Earth station, or Earth terminal is a terrestrial radio station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft (constituting part of the ground segment of the spacecraft system), or reception of radio waves from astronomical radio sources.

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Hosted payload

A hosted payload is a module attached to a commercial satellite with communications circuitry that operates independently of the main spacecraft but which shares the satellite's power supply and transponders.

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Inmarsat

Inmarsat is a British satellite telecommunications company, offering global mobile services. Iridium Communications and Inmarsat are communications satellite operators, satellite Internet access and satellite telephony.

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Inter-satellite service

Inter-satellite service (also: inter-satellite radiocommunication service) is – according to Article 1.22 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Radio Regulations (RR) – defined as A radiocommunication service providing links between artificial satellites.

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Internet Low Bitrate Codec

Internet Low Bitrate Codec (iLBC) is a royalty-free narrowband speech audio coding format and an open-source reference implementation (codec), developed by Global IP Solutions (GIPS) formerly Global IP Sound (acquired by Google Inc in 2011).

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Internet of things

The Internet of things (IoT) describes devices with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communications networks.

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Iridium

Iridium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ir and atomic number 77.

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Iridium 33

Iridium 33 was a communications satellite launched by Russia for Iridium Communications.

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Iridium satellite constellation

The Iridium satellite constellation provides L band voice and data information coverage to satellite phones, satellite messenger communication devices and integrated transceivers. Iridium Communications and Iridium satellite constellation are satellite telephony.

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Ka band

The Ka band (pronounced as either "kay-ay band" or "ka band") is a portion of the microwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum defined as frequencies in the range 26.5–40 gigahertz (GHz), i.e. wavelengths from slightly over one centimeter down to 7.5 millimeters.

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Kosmos 2251

Kosmos-2251 (Космос-2251 meaning Cosmos 2251) was a Russian Strela-2M military communications satellite.

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Kyocera

is a Japanese multinational ceramics and electronics manufacturer headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.

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L band

The L band is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) designation for the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum from 1 to 2 gigahertz (GHz).

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Leesburg, Virginia

Leesburg is a town in and the county seat of Loudoun County, Virginia, United States.

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List of S&P 400 companies

This is a list of companies having stocks that are included in the S&P MidCap 400 (S&P 400) stock market index. Iridium Communications and list of S&P 400 companies are companies in the S&P 400.

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Low Earth orbit

A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less than 0.25.

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McLean, Virginia

McLean is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

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Millisecond

A millisecond (from milli- and second; symbol: ms) is a unit of time in the International System of Units equal to one thousandth (0.001 or 10−3 or 1/1000) of a second or 1000 microseconds.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone).

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Mobile-satellite service

Mobile-satellite service (MSS, or mobile-satellite radiocommunication service) is – according to Article 1.25 of the International Telecommunication Union's Radio Regulations – "A radiocommunication service.

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Monopoly

A monopoly (from Greek label and label), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular thing.

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Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois.

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Nasdaq

The Nasdaq Stock Market (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American stock exchange based in New York City.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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National Guard of Russia

The National Guard of the Russian Federation (translit), officially known as the (lit),Official website.

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O3b Networks

O3b Networks Ltd. was a network communications service provider building and operating a medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellite constellation primarily intended to provide voice and data communications to mobile operators and Internet service providers. Iridium Communications and O3b Networks are satellite Internet access.

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Orbcomm

ORBCOMM is an American company that offers industrial internet and machine to machine (M2M) communications hardware, software and services designed to track, monitor, and control fixed and mobile assets in markets including transportation, heavy equipment, maritime, oil and gas, utilities and government. Iridium Communications and Orbcomm are communications satellite operators and satellite Internet access.

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A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages.

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Payphone

A payphone (alternative spelling: pay phone or pay telephone or public phone) is typically a coin-operated public telephone, often located in a telephone booth or in high-traffic public areas.

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Pendrell Corporation

Pendrell Corporation (formerly NASDAQ:PCO, delisted Nov 2017) is an intellectual property (IP) investment, advisory services and asset management firm. Iridium Communications and Pendrell Corporation are communications satellite operators.

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Polar orbit

A polar orbit is one in which a satellite passes above or nearly above both poles of the body being orbited (usually a planet such as the Earth, but possibly another body such as the Moon or Sun) on each revolution.

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Public company

A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets.

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Quake Global

Quake Global is a technology company that provides products for asset tracking, location, and analytics.

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Qualcomm

Qualcomm Incorporated is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware. Iridium Communications and Qualcomm are companies listed on the Nasdaq.

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Qualcomm Snapdragon

Snapdragon is a suite of system-on-a-chip (SoC) semiconductor products for mobile devices designed and marketed by Qualcomm Technologies Inc.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.

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Satellite

A satellite or artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body.

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Satellite navigation

A satellite navigation or satnav system is a system that uses satellites to provide autonomous geopositioning.

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Satellite phone

A satellite telephone, satellite phone or satphone is a type of mobile phone that connects to other phones or the telephone network by radio link through satellites orbiting the Earth instead of terrestrial cell sites, as cellphones do. Iridium Communications and satellite phone are satellite telephony.

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SES Broadband

SES Broadband (previously ASTRA2Connect) is a two-way satellite broadband Internet service available across Europe, which launched in March 2007, and uses the Astra series of geostationary satellites. Iridium Communications and SES Broadband are satellite Internet access.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Sky and Space Global

Sky and Space Global (UK) Ltd is a British public company planning a constellation of 200 nanosatellites in equatorial Low Earth orbit for narrowband communications that it expects will cost $160 million or less to complete in total. Satellites will feature inter-satellite links and the capability to autonomously monitor and manage satellite health and the in-orbit communications network.

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SMS

Short Message Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems.

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SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, commonly referred to as SpaceX, is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launch service provider and satellite communications company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

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Special-purpose acquisition company

A special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC), also known as a "blank check company", is a shell corporation listed on a stock exchange with the purpose of acquiring (or merging with) a private company, thus making the private company public without going through the initial public offering process, which often carries significant procedural and regulatory burdens.

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Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by Starlink Services, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of American aerospace company SpaceX, providing coverage to 80 countries. Iridium Communications and Starlink are communications satellite operators and satellite Internet access.

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Telecommunications

Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information with an immediacy comparable to face-to-face communication.

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Teledesic

Teledesic was a company founded in the 1990s to build a commercial broadband satellite internet constellation. Iridium Communications and Teledesic are satellite Internet access.

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Tempe, Arizona

Tempe (Oidbaḍ in O'odham) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, with the Census Bureau reporting a 2020 population of 180,587.

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Thales Alenia Space

Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between the French technology corporation Thales Group (67%) and Italian defense conglomerate Leonardo (33%).

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Thales Group

Thales Group is a French multinational company that designs, develops and manufactures electrical systems as well as devices and equipment for the aerospace, defence, transportation and security sectors.

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Thuraya

Thuraya (الثريا, Gulf Arabic pron.:; from the Arabic name for the constellation of the Pleiades, Thurayya) is a United Arab Emirates-based regional mobile-satellite service (MSS) provider. Iridium Communications and Thuraya are communications satellite operators and satellite telephony.

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Tracking system

A tracking system, also known as a locating system, is used for the observing of persons or objects on the move and supplying a timely ordered sequence of location data for further processing.

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Tsunami warning system

A tsunami warning system (TWS) is used to detect tsunamis in advance and issue the warnings to prevent loss of life and damage to property.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States bankruptcy court

United States bankruptcy courts are courts created under Article I of the United States Constitution.

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United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the U.S. government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces.

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User interface

In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur.

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Vandenberg Space Force Base

Vandenberg Space Force Base, previously Vandenberg Air Force Base, is a United States Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California.

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Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4

Space Launch Complex 4 (SLC-4) is a launch and landing site at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, U.S. It has two pads, both of which are used by SpaceX for Falcon 9, one for launch operations, and the other as Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) for SpaceX landings.

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Vice President of the United States

The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession.

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Wi-Fi hotspot

A hotspot is a physical location where people can obtain Internet access, typically using Wi-Fi technology, via a wireless local-area network (WLAN) using a router connected to an Internet service provider.

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2009 satellite collision

On February 10, 2009, two communications satellites—the active commercial Iridium 33 and the derelict Russian military Kosmos 2251—accidentally collided at a speed of and an altitude of above the Taymyr Peninsula in Siberia.

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3GPP

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is an umbrella term for a number of standards organizations which develop protocols for mobile telecommunications.

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5G

In telecommunications, 5G is the fifth-generation technology standard for cellular networks, which cellular phone companies began deploying worldwide in 2019, and is the successor to 4G technology that provides connectivity to most current mobile phones.

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See also

2009 initial public offerings

Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1999

Data collection satellites

Satellite telephony

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_Communications

Also known as IRDM, Iridium Communications Inc, Iridium Communications Inc., Iridium SSC, Iridium STL, Iridium Satellite LLC, Iridium Short Burst Data, Iridium handset, Iridium phone, Iridium satellite, Iridium satellite phone, Short Burst Data, Snapdragon Satellite.

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