• The Iridium constellation is a satellite constellation of 66 satellites (plus spares) providing voice and data coverage to satellite phones, pagers and integrated transceivers over the Earth's entire surface.
   

• Iridium 2nd Generation (NEXT) satellites, by Thales
• First 10 satellites launched in Jan 2017
• Expected lifetime: ~ 20 years, no antenna flares
 
• Iridium 1st Generation satellites, by Motorola
• Launched in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2002
• Expected lifetime: ~ 5 to 8 years, antenna flares

• Official Iridium webpage
• Send Iridium SMS

• Wikipedia - Iridium Satellite Constellation
• Archive Video / Iridium NEXT First Launch (Iridium, 2017)
• Archive Video / Iridium 1stGEN - First Launch (Motorola, 1997)
• Archive Video - The vision of Iridium (Motorola, 1992)
• Book - Eccentric Orbits (John Bloom)
• Book - Creating Iridium (Durrell Hillis)
• Unofficial - Iridium Constellation Status

• Iridium products and services (phones, terminals, airtime, etc.) can be obtained through a worldwide network of authorized distributors comprised of service providers, value added resellers and their dealer networks.

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Iridium.online is a realtime 3D map of Iridium satellites, visualized using WebGL. Website maintained by Pavel Masek.

This website is not connected with Iridium Communications Inc. in any way. All trademarks are property of their respective owners.

TLE data provider: Celestrak.com (pulled every hour)

Website is based on modified Stuff in Space project by James Yoder. Iridium TLE data import scripts written by Jan Zdarsky and Jaroslav Trsek. Thank you guys.

Left/Right click and drag to rotate camera, mousewheel to scroll, left click to select an object. Search for an individiual satellite or a group.