Iridium
Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) is a McLean, Virginia satellite communications company operating a constellation of 66 cross-linked Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites that deliver truly global L-band voice, data, IoT, and positioning/navigation/timing (PNT) services across every region of the Earth, including the polar oceans. Iridium sells satellite phones (Iridium Extreme), satellite messengers, satellite IoT modules and modems (Iridium 9602/9603, Iridium Certus 9770/9810/9704, Iridium Edge, Iridium Edge Pro, Iridium Edge Solar), Short Burst Data (SBD) messaging, broadband Certus terminals, and next-generation Iridium NTN Direct 5G Non-Terrestrial Network services built on 3GPP NB-IoT for direct-to-device smartphone and IoT connectivity. Iridium CloudConnect — co-developed with Amazon Web Services — pipes satellite IoT data as JSON into customer-owned Amazon SQS queues inside their own AWS VPC over a dedicated private Iridium-AWS interconnect, making Iridium the first global cloud-native satellite IoT backhaul. The company serves aviation, maritime, government/defense, land-mobile, autonomous systems, and IoT markets through a partner ecosystem of more than 500 service providers, value-added resellers, and hardware OEMs, and in May 2026 announced a planned acquisition of Aireon, operator of the world's only space-based air traffic surveillance network. Iridium's business model is airtime/subscription revenue plus hardware module licensing and engineering services; there is no public, self-service developer API or OpenAPI — network access is mediated through Iridium-authorized service providers, the Iridium CloudConnect AWS integration, and hardware-level AT-command and SBD interfaces on Iridium modems.
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Kin Score
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How we profile Iridium
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Iridium. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Iridium — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 7
The organization behind the API
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Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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