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RE: Iridium

Marc Martin
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>I noticed that Iridium utilise 66 low-earth orbiting (LEO) satellites operated
>by The Boeing Company.

Actually, I just remembered something -- Iridium went out of business, and
the entire satellite constellation was deorbited and burned up in the
atmosphere.

So those aren't causing anyone any problems... :-)

Marc

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RE: Iridium

Marc Martin
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> Actually, I just remembered something -- Iridium went out of business,
> and the entire satellite constellation was deorbited and burned up in
> the atmosphere.

I've been corrected by one of my coworkers -- altough Iridium *did*
go bankrupt, and possible *some* of the satellites were deorbited,
they were bought out by someone else, so the constellation is
being used for *something*, although I'm not sure what...

Marc

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RE: Iridium

Benson, Sarah (Sen L. Allison)
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The information is on the press release which was on the link I sent out
the other day!

Sarah

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Martin [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Thursday, 8 April 2004 3:41 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: RE: [eSens] Iridium


> Actually, I just remembered something -- Iridium went out of business,

> and the entire satellite constellation was deorbited and burned up in
> the atmosphere.

I've been corrected by one of my coworkers -- altough Iridium *did* go
bankrupt, and possible *some* of the satellites were deorbited, they
were bought out by someone else, so the constellation is
being used for *something*, although I'm not sure what...

Marc


 
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