Only iridium offers truly global communications through a constellation of 66 crosslinked leo satellites.
Iridium satellite frequency range.
Leopold and ken peterson in late 1987 in 1988.
Formerly iridium satellite llc is a publicly traded american company headquartered in mclean virginia iridium operates the iridium satellite constellation a system of 66 active satellites and 9 spares in space used for worldwide voice and data communication from hand held satellite phones and other transceiver units.
This is the l band uplink downlink for the low earth orbit iridium satellite constellation.
With communications solutions ranging from satellite phones to broadband terminals iridium is trusted by more than a million mariners pilots humanitarians first responders and governments around the world.
Iridium satellite frequency description.
The iridium satellite system uses l band transponders to communicate with the ground based users with frequencies in the band 1616 1626 5 mhz while the backhaul to the terrestrial gateways is in the band between 29 1 and 29 3 ghz for the up link and in the band between 19 1 and 19 6 ghz for the downlink.
With the variety of satellite frequency bands that can be used designations have been developed so that they can be referred to easily.
The link between the iridium satellite and a user typically operates at a 2 4kbps data rate for voice communications up to 64kbps for l band handset data services short burst data and 512kbit s to 1 5mbit s when using an iridium openport terminal servicing customers with a need for more data.
Between iridium phone terminal and iridium satellite.
1616 mhz 1626 5 mhz.
The satellites transmit in the l band at carrier frequencies in the range of 1616 1626 5 mhz using quadrature phase shift keying qpsk with a symbol rate of 25 000 symbols per second.
Between two iridium satellites.
The higher frequency bands typically give access to wider bandwidths but are also more susceptible to signal degradation due to rain fade the absorption of radio signals by atmospheric rain snow or ice.
The iridium constellation consists of 66 low earth orbiting leo satellites primarily used for global communications.
The iridium satellite constellation provides l band voice and data information coverage to satellite phones pagers and integrated transceivers over the entire earth surface.
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1616 mhz 1626 5 mhz.
23 18 to 23 38 ghz.
L band in the range from 1621 35 to 1626 5 mhz used for both uplink and downlink.
