Tool

iridium-sniffer

iridium-sniffer detects and demodulates Iridium L-band bursts from supported SDR devices or recorded IQ files. Its C pipeline emits iridium-toolkit RAW frames and can decode IDA and ACARS/SBD messages, with GSMTAP output for Wireshark analysis.

Targets: Protocol
Category: Protocol analysis tools
Relationship: Foundation tool
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 214
Last commit: 2026-10-19
Language: C
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: CMake, a C toolchain and FFTW3 are required for the core build; live capture needs a supported SDR and its library.
Prerequisites: libacars-2 is optional for ARINC-622 payload decoding.
Limits: Voice decoding requires the experimental ENABLE_VOICE build option.
License: GPL-3.0 licence.

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BibTeX

@misc{iridium-sniffer,
  title = {{iridium-sniffer}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/alphafox02/iridium-sniffer}},
  url = {https://github.com/alphafox02/iridium-sniffer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/iridium-sniffer/}}
}

Plain text

iridium-sniffer. https://github.com/alphafox02/iridium-sniffer (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/iridium-sniffer/

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README.md GitHub · alphafox02/iridium-sniffer · Revision 830e34c
ARCHITECTURE.md GitHub · alphafox02/iridium-sniffer · Revision 830e34c