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THE GOLDEN DOME Iridium Global Network Motorola provided the technology 1998 2000, the US government stepped in to save Iridium by providing US$72 million in exchange for a two-year contract. They also approved the fire sale of the company from US bankruptcy court for $25 million[15] in March 2001. This erased over $4 billion in debt. service was restarted in 2001, by the newly founded Iridium Satellite LLC, which was owned by a group of private investors. SpaceX (Elon Musk) was contracted to launch all Iridium NEXT satellites between 2017 and 2019 January 14, 2017, 10 years after the campaign was first announced, the first of eight Iridium NEXT launches took place with SpaceX from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Over the next two years, Iridium sent an additional 65 satellites into low Earth orbit to completely replace the original satellite constellation. The final Iridium NEXT launch took place on January 11, 2019 Matt Desch is the current CEO of Iridium LLC-2009 The Iridium NEXT network covers the entire Earth The system is being used by the U.S. Department of Defense. From 2015–2022, Iridium Satellite was selling navigation systems directly to its Russian subsidiary, Iridium Communications. In 2022, the Moscow-based subsidiary gave the National Guard of Russia access to the satellite constellation. discussed here Feisty Diggs @ 1.56.00 https://rumble.com/v71id54-feisty-diggs.html https://www.iridium.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20080803081835/http://www.gcn.com/print/17_30/33906-1.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_Communications https://www.govconwire.com/articles/iridium-matt-desch-q2-2025-revenue-iron-dome-pnt