Iridium Satellite announced July 12 its satellite communications customer base in the aviation market has more than doubled throughout the past 12 months. At the end of June, the installed base of Iridium aeronautical terminals has surpassed 7,500 units, with an average of more than 300 new units being commissioned each month.

Separately, Iridium announced Euro Telematik completed installation of an Iridium-based aircraft tracking system for the Luxembourg Air Rescue service. The Aerofleet system will allow operators to monitor the rescue fleet with automatic position reports sent from Iridium’s network of 66 low-Earth orbiting satellites. The system also provides two-way voice and data exchange between the ground operations and the flight crew.