Iridium Receives DoD Gateway Support and Maintenance Contract
DOD buys billions of dollars of COTS services every year. The price on this contract is a drop in the bucket compared to a very many, like MS support, SAP licenses, ...
You changed the subject and missed the point. Iridium doesn’t have a viable commercial business case and never had one. Globalstar never had one either since in the 10 years from its inception to launch in the late 90’s the ground cell structure took away its core business at much lower cost. Internet will be the same. Space is expensive. Can’t get around that.