Iridium adds to constellation resilience with launch of spare satellites
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Iridium Communications Inc. announced yesterday a key milestone in its long-term constellation resilience and redundancy planning, with the successful launch and deployment of five spare satellites. This launch brings the total number of spare Iridium® satellites on orbit to 14. In total, 81 next-generation Iridium satellites were built, and 80 of them have now been […]