Surviving in the frigid, barren and unforgiving Arctic
CNN - The camp used the now-defunct Iridium satellite phone system to communicate with the outside world. Mikhalevsky is headed back to the eastern Arctic this fall to check on a research site in the Lincoln Sea area which has been compiling data using
Qualcomm’s chip chief looks to 4G
Electronic Engineering Times - The original model for GPS was as an adjunct function to the cell phone, and all Is there still a role for low-Earth-orbit wireless networks, such as Iridium, or I’m not convinced there is a satellite business for the consumer market. In the
The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980 - 2020
Wired - Soon after, the big satellite projects come online. By 1998, the Iridium global phone network is complete. By 2002, Teledesic’s global Internet network is operational. These projects, among others, allow seamless connection to the information