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.