aid: iridium-com
name: Iridium
description: >-
  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.
type: Index
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Satellite
  - Satellite Communications
  - LEO
  - L-Band
  - IoT
  - Satellite IoT
  - Short Burst Data
  - SBD
  - Iridium Certus
  - Iridium NTN Direct
  - NB-IoT
  - 5G Non-Terrestrial Network
  - Direct To Device
  - Positioning Navigation And Timing
  - PNT
  - Maritime
  - Aviation
  - Defense
  - Autonomous Systems
  - CloudConnect
  - AWS
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iridium-com/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
common:
  - type: DomainSecurity
    url: security/iridium-com-domain-security.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.iridium.com
  - type: Services
    url: https://www.iridium.com/services/
  - type: CloudConnect
    url: https://www.iridium.com/services/iridium-cloudconnect/
  - type: NTNDirect
    url: https://www.iridium.com/services/iridium-ntn-direct/
  - type: PNT
    url: https://www.iridium.com/services/pnt/
  - type: IoTDataMessaging
    url: https://www.iridium.com/services/iot-data-messaging/
  - type: SafetySecurity
    url: https://www.iridium.com/services/safety-security/
  - type: Voice
    url: https://www.iridium.com/services/voice/
  - type: Products
    url: https://www.iridium.com/products/
  - type: DeveloperResources
    url: https://www.iridium.com/products/develop-anything/
  - type: Modules
    url: https://www.iridium.com/products/iridium-9602/
  - type: Partners
    url: https://www.iridium.com/partners/
  - type: Company
    url: https://www.iridium.com/company/
  - type: InvestorRelations
    url: https://investor.iridium.com
  - type: Newsroom
    url: https://www.iridium.com/company/news-media/
  - type: Careers
    url: https://www.iridium.com/company/careers/
  - type: Contact
    url: https://www.iridium.com/company/contact/
  - type: Messaging
    url: https://messaging.iridium.com
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/IridiumComm
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/iridium-satellite-communications
  - type: YouTube
    url: https://www.youtube.com/user/IridiumComm
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com