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Iridium
ActiveOperating status — whether the company still runs independently. “Closed” usually means it was acquired, merged, or shut down.🔥 HighHeat score — how much recent activity & attention the company has (web traffic, news, hiring).📈 Low growthGrowth score — momentum trend across web traffic, headcount and other growth signals. Mclean, Virginia, United States Founded 2001 501-1000 employees For Profit
Iridium provides satellite-based voice, data, and positioning services through a global low Earth orbit satellite network.
Iridium on Acquirezy — acquisitions, funding rounds, investments, investors, key people & contacts.
Iridium was acquired by Rocket Lab in 2026 for $8B.
Last Funding
Acquisitions
1
Monthly Visits
Contacts
376
Ticker
IRDM
NASDAQ
Patents
62
42 trademarks
About Iridium
Funding & Financials
- Total funding
- Funding rounds
- Last funding
- Last funding type
- Last funding date
- Funding status
- Total equity funding
- Revenue range
IPO & Stock
- IPO status
- Public
- Ticker
- IRDM
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- IPO date
- Sep 24, 2009
Web Traffic
- Monthly visits
- Global traffic rank
- 6-mo avg visits
- Visit duration (s)
- Pages / visit
- Bounce rate
- Rank change (mo)
Technology & IP
- Active technologies
- 62
- Mobile apps
- 5
- Downloads (30d)
- 24
- Active products
- 41
- Patents granted
- 62
- Trademarks
- 42
- Top patent class
- Electric Communication Technique
- IT spend
- $71.03M
Company Info
- Founded
- 2001
- Employees
- 501-1000
- Operating status
- Active
- Company type
- For Profit
- Org types
- company
- Founders
- 1
- News articles
- 581
- Events
- 2
- HQ
- Mclean, Virginia, United States
- Region
- Washington DC Metro Area, East Coast, Southern US
- Exit date
- Sep 24, 2009
Signals & Scores
- Heat score
- High
- Growth score
- Low
- Trend (7d)
- -0.3
- Trend (30d)
- 7.9
- Trend (90d)
- 8.4
- Last leadership hire
- Dec 4, 2025
Iridium Acquisitions
2 results
| Acquiree Name | Acquirer Name | Acquiree Industries | Acquiree Hq Country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aireon | $366.7M | 2026-05-14 | Iridium | Air TransportationIndustrialInformation ServicesPublic TransportationRemote Sensing | United States |
| Satelles | — | 2024-03-04 | Iridium | ComputerSatellite Communication | United States |
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