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Iridium Announces First Development Partners for Next

By JJ McCoy | August 8, 2007

      Iridium Satellite has contracted with seven partners in the initial phase of designing and developing its next-generation Iridium Next satellite constellation, the company announced Aug. 7.

      The first partners — Avaliant, Boeing, General Dynamics, KinetX, MicroSat Systems Inc. (MSI) and Trident Sensors — will work with Iridium on systems engineering, requirements definition and architecture development.