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First Iridium NEXT satellite bus receives payloads

Submit on Monday, June 1st, 2015 22:57

Iridium Communications Inc. announced it has completed the first satellite payload-to-bus integration on an Iridium NEXT satellite. This successful mating of the communication payload and the Aireon hosted payload to the platform is yet another critical milestone achieved in the production process, bringing the overall constellation one step closer to launch, the company said.

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