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  • Normally it would find a signal and the word Iridium would appear, along with two segmented bars, one showing the amount of power still in the battery, the other showing the strength of the satellite signal.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • After a minute or so it stopped scanning and displayed the word Iridium to let me know it was ready.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • Normally it would find a signal and the word Iridium would appear, along with two segmented bars, one showing the amount of power still in the battery, the other showing the strength of the satellite signal.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • After a minute or so it stopped scanning and displayed the word Iridium to let me know it was ready.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • He also notes that Iridium is in the process of contracting for its next generation of satellites.

    Satellite Collision Means Tiny Outages 2009

  • Iridium is the meteor-hunter’s lodestar: the discovery of iridium dating back 65 million years is what started the geologist Walter Alvarez on his path-breaking theory about the dinosaurs’ demise.

    The Sky Is Falling 2008

  • Iridium is the meteor-hunter’s lodestar: the discovery of iridium dating back 65 million years is what started the geologist Walter Alvarez on his path-breaking theory about the dinosaurs’ demise.

    The Sky Is Falling 2008

  • Iridium is the meteor-hunter’s lodestar: the discovery of iridium dating back 65 million years is what started the geologist Walter Alvarez on his path-breaking theory about the dinosaurs’ demise.

    The Sky Is Falling 2008

  • Les Paul has had a Monday night residency at one club or another in New York for at least the last 25 years, and has called Iridium his home for the last decade or so.

    Tony Sachs: I Love The (Musicians In Their) 90s 2008

  • One Globalstar competitor, a consortium of big telecommunication and defense firms called Iridium, offered China a phone system that bounced international calls from its satellites down to a processing center in Arizona.

    The Price Of The Deal 2008

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