Iridium Satellite Reception
The Iridium Satellite Constellation has been on the agenda of security researchers for quite some time. Their efforts have resulted in a fairly easy to use code and guides. This wiki should get you up and running fairly quickly
Hardware
In order to receive Iridium you are going to need some hardware.
- Software Defined Radio
- RTL-SDR
- BladeRf
- HackRF
- USRP
- Most SDRs that have an libosmosdr binding library
- Antennas
- Passive
- Active
- Modified GPS antenna with replaced filter
- Decent Computer
Software
It is possible to do this under windows. But I have not tested this and I would imagine it would be too time consuming.
- Linux OS
- GNU Radio