about iridium satellites fleet

mission brief

The Iridium fleet since origin has been composed by 66 active satellites, plus in orbit and on earth spares. The fleet is divided in 6 polar orbits of 11 satellites each one. Since 1997 a total number of 95 first generation satellites has been put on orbit. Since January 2019 Iridium Next second generation satellites fleet has revamped the original old one. The following table resume the updated status of first generation Iridium satellites as follow:

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updated mission table

  Iridium 2 Iridium 3 Iridium 4 Iridium 5 Iridium 6 Iridium 7 Iridium 8 Iridium 9 Iridium 10
 
Iridium 11 Iridium 12 Iridium 13 Iridium 14 Iridium 15 Iridium 16 Iridium 17 Iridium 18 Iridium 19 Iridium 20
Iridium 21 Iridium 22 Iridium 23 Iridium 24 Iridium 25 Iridium 26 Iridium 27 Iridium 28 Iridium 29 Iridium 30
Iridium 31 Iridium 32 Iridium 33 Iridium 34 Iridium 35 Iridium 36 Iridium 37 Iridium 38 Iridium 39 Iridium 40
Iridium 41 Iridium 42 Iridium 43 Iridium 44 Iridium 45 Iridium 46 Iridium 47 Iridium 48 Iridium 49 Iridium 50
Iridium 51 Iridium 52 Iridium 53 Iridium 54 Iridium 55 Iridium 56 Iridium 57 Iridium 58 Iridium 59 Iridium 60
Iridium 61 Iridium 62 Iridium 63 Iridium 64 Iridium 65 Iridium 66 Iridium 67 Iridium 68 Iridium 69 Iridium 70
Iridium 71 Iridium 72 Iridium 73 Iridium 74 Iridium 75 Iridium 76 Iridium 77   Iridium 79 Iridium 80
 
Iridium 81 Iridium 82 Iridium 83 Iridium 84 Iridium 85 Iridium 86       Iridium 90
     
Iridium 91     Iridium 94 Iridium 95 Iridium 96 Iridium 97 Iridium 98    
       
Iridium 911 Iridium 914 Iridium 920 Iridium 921