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
    • Taoglas Iridium Antenna
  • 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
  • LiveDVD/USB