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Honestly,
Iridium Satellite is Too Cool for Words
Iridium satellite
is modern, and what some might call, futuristic. We are living in
the true technological age and services like these are beneath the
world’s technical power and capability. When I explain how iridium
satellite works you may marvel at how ultimately simple it is.
Iridium is a brittle, silver-white
metallic chemical element that forms hard corrosive resistant alloys
and is often used in making jewelry, watch parts, pens, surgical equipment,
etc. I can only assume that iridium is used somewhere in the satellite
equipment or that the company developers liked the sound of the word.
But, more importantly, on to the way this works. There exists a low
earth-orbiting network of satellites that are 450 miles above earth
and are close enough to earth to act like airborne cellular towers.
Comparatively, the satellites used for dish tv are about 36,000 miles
above earth. This network of satellites relays the signal from a starting
point, a “gateway” on earth and is bounced from satellite
to satellite down to the nearest gateway to the phone, fax, computer,
pager at the other end and relayed through a terrestrial dish as needed.
Information can be sent or received by any phone; only one side of
this communication system need be the iridium satellite system. This
system covers all quarters of earth: you can be in a plane, the ocean,
or the north or South Pole. I told you that it was cool!
