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Estonian President Manages State from Antarctica over the Iridium® Network During Historic Voyage
Read more: Estonian President Manages State from Antarctica over the Iridium® Network During Historic VoyagePresident Kersti Kaljulaid signed digital legally binding documents from Antarctica using Iridium Certus® On January 27th, Her Excellency Kersti Kaljulaid, President of the Republic of Estonia set forth on a historic voyage, commemorating the 200-year anniversary of Antarctica’s discovery by Estonian born Admiral Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. Until her return to Estonia on January 31st,…
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Q&A with Hearts in the Ice Founders Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Falun Strom
Read more: Q&A with Hearts in the Ice Founders Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Falun StromSunniva Sorby and Hilde Falun Strom are explorers, adventurers, polar ambassadors and citizen scientists with over 20 years’ experience each in the polar regions. In 2017 they started Hearts in the Ice, a platform for social engagement around climate change. Iridium is keeping Sunniva and Hilde connected as they spend 9 months at the trappers…
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ESTEM Antarctica goes Iridium GO!
Read more: ESTEM Antarctica goes Iridium GO!Guest Blogger: Nuno Sidónio Andrade Pereira, Polytechnic Institute of Beja – Portugal This was “day one” of my second campaign. This year, the project ESTEM Antarctica(*), brought us (me and my colleague Tânia) to the Bulgarian Antarctic Base, in Livingston. The project is about Physical Computing, STEM education, and Virtual Reality. We were testing simple Arduino-based data…