# Iridium Communications: space company profile

> Iridium Communications: Iridium Communications, trading as IRDM, operates a 66-satellite LEO constellation delivering voice, data, and IoT connectivity worldwide, including polar regions.

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- Data as of: profile last verified 2026-10-22; quote fetched 2026-10-23 19:04 UTC
- How the numbers are made: https://spacenexus.us/methodology#space-score

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## Profile facts

- Name: Iridium Communications (legal name Iridium Communications Inc.)
- What it does: Iridium Communications, trading as IRDM, operates a 66-satellite LEO constellation delivering voice, data, and IoT connectivity worldwide, including polar regions. (SpaceNexus analyst note)
- Sector: satellite
- Headquarters: McLean, Virginia, US
- Founded: 2000
- Employees: 501-1000
- Chief executive: Matt Desch
- Status: active
- Ownership: public
- Publicly traded: yes, IRDM on Nasdaq
- Website: [https://www.iridium.com](https://www.iridium.com) (SpaceNexus profile)
- Profile claimed by the company: no
- Profile last verified: 2026-10-22

## Market data

- Share price: $44.33 (+1.23% over 24 hours)
- Market capitalisation: $4.70B
- Quote: Yahoo Finance, fetched 2026-10-23 19:04 UTC
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## Funding

- Raised privately before listing: No private round on record (No private round on record before Sep 2009. IPO, offerings, debt and unconverted notes are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.)

No funding round recorded on this profile.

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## Space Score

- Score 622 of 1000, tier Contender.
- Rank 25 of 97 ranked companies.
- 6 of 7 inputs measured, high confidence, 100% of applicable pillar weight backed by data; measured 2026-10-23 02:10 UTC.
- Scale (46% of this total): 54 of 100
- Government space demand (31% of this total): 91 of 100
- Capital access (15% nominal, dropped): does not apply
- Momentum (23% of this total): 41 of 100; not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
- Flight record (20% nominal, dropped): does not apply
- Every input, value and percentile: [breakdown](https://spacenexus.us/rankings/space-score-methodology?company=iridium-communications#breakdown)
- The Space Score is a 0 to 1000 snapshot of a space company's size and activity, relative to the other companies we track. It combines size (headcount, market value and revenue, 30%), U.S. federal space contracts (20%), equity raised (15%), momentum (15%) and, for launch companies, orbital launches (20%), so it leans heavily on size. It is descriptive: not a forecast, a rating or investment advice.
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## Government contracts (latest)

| Award date | Agency | Title | Value (USD) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-06-22 | DoD | ALTERNATIVE POSITION, NAVIGATION AND TIMING SERVICES | $7.7M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA254126FB076_9700_FA254125DB018_9700) |
| 2025-09-10 | DoD | THIS EFFORT IS TO ESTABLISH A TASK ORDER (TO) #5 ACCESS NETWORK CONTROLLER (ANC) UNDER SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSFORMATION AND HYBRIDIZATION (SITH) IDIQ. | $4.2M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA254125FB026_9700_FA254125DB027_9700) |
| 2025-09-10 | DoD | THIS EFFORT IS TO ESTABLISH TASK ORDER #3 IRIDIUM MESSAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM (IMPS) UNDER SITH IDIQ A SOLE SOURCE SINGLE AWARD IDIQ FOR SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSFORMATION AND HYBRIDIZATION (SITH). | $2.6M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA254125FB023_9700_FA254125DB027_9700) |
| 2025-09-10 | DoD | THIS EFFORT IS TO ESTABLISH A TASK ORDER # 3 FOR TELEPORT CONTROLLER (TPC) REPLACEMENT REFRESH/MODERNIZATION UNDER SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSFORMATION AND HYBRIDIZATION (SITH) IDIQ. | $2.0M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA254125FB025_9700_FA254125DB027_9700) |
| 2025-09-05 | DoD | THIS EFFORT IS TO ESTABLISH A TASK ORDER FOR TASK 2 NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY REFRESH FY25 (NITR25) UNDER SITH IDIQ. | $2.8M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA254125FB022_9700_FA254125DB027_9700) |
| 2025-09-05 | DoD | THIS EFFORT IS TO ESTABLISH TASK ORDER 1 GATEWAY LOCATION SERVER (GWLS) UNDER SITH IDIQ | $1.6M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA254125FB021_9700_FA254125DB027_9700) |
| 2025-08-22 | DoD | ENGINEERING AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES | $15.1M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HC101325F0092_9700_HC101323D9004_9700) |
| 2024-09-25 | DoD | AUTODIALERS- LABOR | $989K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HC101324F0137_9700_HC101319D0005_9700) |
| 2024-09-24 | DoD | NI REFRESH FY23 LABOR | $4.6M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HC101324F0168_9700_HC101319D0005_9700) |
| 2024-09-23 | DoD | CERTUS BASEBAND ORDER OFF GEC (HC101319D0005) | $3.5M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HC101324F0052_9700_HC101319D0005_9700) |
| 2024-09-23 | DoD | NI REFRESH FY24 LABOR | $3.3M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HC101324F0139_9700_HC101319D0005_9700) |
| 2024-06-28 | DoD | MA-DNX TASK ORDER | $2.7M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HC101324F0112_9700_HC101319D0005_9700) |
| 2024-06-28 | DoD | THIS REQUIREMENT WILL DEVELOP A MANAGED ACCESS CAPABILITY AS AN ENHANCEMENT TO THE CURRENT BLUE FORCE TRACKING (BFT) SYSTEM. | $1.9M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA254124CB040_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2024-03-28 | DoD | THE ECS3 REQUIREMENT SUPPORTS THE DEVELOPMENT, FIELDING, ONGOING OPERATIONS, AND MAINTENANCE OF THE EMSS SERVICE CENTER AND DEFENSE GROUND STATION (DGS), ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT. | $39.7M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA254124CB001_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2023-09-30 | DoD | RADOMES ORDER | $780K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HC101323F0180_9700_HC101319D0005_9700) |

## Operations

- Open roles on the SpaceNexus jobs board: 0

## Sources

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- Yahoo Finance: share price and market capitalisation
- Federal award records: contract awards

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