Iridium

Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) is a McLean, Virginia satellite communications company operating a constellation of 66 cross-linked Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites that deliver truly global L-band voice, data, IoT, and positioning/navigation/timing (PNT) services across every region of the Earth, including the polar oceans. Iridium sells satellite phones (Iridium Extreme), satellite messengers, satellite IoT modules and modems (Iridium 9602/9603, Iridium Certus 9770/9810/9704, Iridium Edge, Iridium Edge Pro, Iridium Edge Solar), Short Burst Data (SBD) messaging, broadband Certus terminals, and next-generation Iridium NTN Direct 5G Non-Terrestrial Network services built on 3GPP NB-IoT for direct-to-device smartphone and IoT connectivity. Iridium CloudConnect — co-developed with Amazon Web Services — pipes satellite IoT data as JSON into customer-owned Amazon SQS queues inside their own AWS VPC over a dedicated private Iridium-AWS interconnect, making Iridium the first global cloud-native satellite IoT backhaul. The company serves aviation, maritime, government/defense, land-mobile, autonomous systems, and IoT markets through a partner ecosystem of more than 500 service providers, value-added resellers, and hardware OEMs, and in May 2026 announced a planned acquisition of Aireon, operator of the world's only space-based air traffic surveillance network. Iridium's business model is airtime/subscription revenue plus hardware module licensing and engineering services; there is no public, self-service developer API or OpenAPI — network access is mediated through Iridium-authorized service providers, the Iridium CloudConnect AWS integration, and hardware-level AT-command and SBD interfaces on Iridium modems.

Iridium is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Satellite, Satellite Communications, LEO, L-Band, and IoT.

Iridium’s developer surface includes YouTube channel and 21 more developer resources.

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3.5/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
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Satellite Satellite Communications LEO L-Band IoTSatellite IoTShort Burst DataSBDIridium CertusIridium NTN DirectNB-IoT5G Non-Terrestrial NetworkDirect-to-DevicePositioning Navigation And TimingPNT Maritime Aviation Defense Autonomous Systems Cloud Connect Amazon Web Services

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 3.5/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Space and Satellite (operators, earth observation, ground segment)	regulated	23.4 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Iridium Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

SafetySecurity

SafetySecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

Contact

Company 7

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Partners

Partners

InvestorRelations

Newsroom

Careers

Twitter

LinkedIn

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Other 11

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Services

CloudConnect

NTNDirect

PNT

IoTDataMessaging

Voice

Products

DeveloperResources

Modules

Company

Messaging

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: iridium-com
name: Iridium
description: 'Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) is a McLean, Virginia satellite communications company operating
  a constellation of 66 cross-linked Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites that deliver truly global L-band voice, data, IoT, and
  positioning/navigation/timing (PNT) services across every region of the Earth, including the polar oceans. Iridium sells
  satellite phones (Iridium Extreme), satellite messengers, satellite IoT modules and modems (Iridium 9602/9603, Iridium Certus
  9770/9810/9704, Iridium Edge, Iridium Edge Pro, Iridium Edge Solar), Short Burst Data (SBD) messaging, broadband Certus
  terminals, and next-generation Iridium NTN Direct 5G Non-Terrestrial Network services built on 3GPP NB-IoT for direct-to-device
  smartphone and IoT connectivity. Iridium CloudConnect — co-developed with Amazon Web Services — pipes satellite IoT data
  as JSON into customer-owned Amazon SQS queues inside their own AWS VPC over a dedicated private Iridium-AWS interconnect,
  making Iridium the first global cloud-native satellite IoT backhaul. The company serves aviation, maritime, government/defense,
  land-mobile, autonomous systems, and IoT markets through a partner ecosystem of more than 500 service providers, value-added
  resellers, and hardware OEMs, and in May 2026 announced a planned acquisition of Aireon, operator of the world''s only space-based
  air traffic surveillance network. Iridium''s business model is airtime/subscription revenue plus hardware module licensing
  and engineering services; there is no public, self-service developer API or OpenAPI — network access is mediated through
  Iridium-authorized service providers, the Iridium CloudConnect AWS integration, and hardware-level AT-command and SBD interfaces
  on Iridium modems.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/iridium-com.png
tags:
- Satellite
- Satellite Communications
- LEO
- L-Band
- IoT
- Satellite IoT
- Short Burst Data
- SBD
- Iridium Certus
- Iridium NTN Direct
- NB-IoT
- 5G Non-Terrestrial Network
- Direct-to-Device
- Positioning Navigation And Timing
- PNT
- Maritime
- Aviation
- Defense
- Autonomous Systems
- Cloud Connect
- Amazon Web Services
tags_raw:
- Satellite
- Satellite Communications
- LEO
- L-Band
- IoT
- Satellite IoT
- Short Burst Data
- SBD
- Iridium Certus
- Iridium NTN Direct
- NB-IoT
- 5G Non-Terrestrial Network
- Direct To Device
- Positioning Navigation And Timing
- PNT
- Maritime
- Aviation
- Defense
- Autonomous Systems
- CloudConnect
- AWS
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iridium-com/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/iridium-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.iridium.com
- type: Services
  url: https://www.iridium.com/services/
- type: CloudConnect
  url: https://www.iridium.com/services/iridium-cloudconnect/
- type: NTNDirect
  url: https://www.iridium.com/services/iridium-ntn-direct/
- type: PNT
  url: https://www.iridium.com/services/pnt/
- type: IoTDataMessaging
  url: https://www.iridium.com/services/iot-data-messaging/
- type: SafetySecurity
  url: https://www.iridium.com/services/safety-security/
- type: Voice
  url: https://www.iridium.com/services/voice/
- type: Products
  url: https://www.iridium.com/products/
- type: DeveloperResources
  url: https://www.iridium.com/products/develop-anything/
- type: Modules
  url: https://www.iridium.com/products/iridium-9602/
- type: Partners
  url: https://www.iridium.com/partners/
- type: Company
  url: https://www.iridium.com/company/
- type: InvestorRelations
  url: https://investor.iridium.com
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://www.iridium.com/company/news-media/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.iridium.com/company/careers/
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.iridium.com/company/contact/
- type: Messaging
  url: https://messaging.iridium.com
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/IridiumComm
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/iridium-satellite-communications
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/user/IridiumComm
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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