Iridium Adding to Go App Offerings

The app offerings for Iridium Go are growing, Iridium Communications said in a news release unveiling a variety of new mobile applications for its mobile communications hub device. The apps were created through Iridium's third-party app developer program. The Iridium app market is aimed at the maritime, outdoor recreation, lone-worker safety and aviation markets, and the apps announced Wednesday include Grib Explorer Plus, which combines weather and oceanic data into imagery; PredictWind Offshore, which allows downloading of such data as weather routing and Global Maritime Distress and Safety System text forecasts; and Quick Web Information Pulls, a news, stocks and sports information aggregator. The satellite company said its third-party app developer program has more than 55 outside developers creating apps to work with the platform.