Iridium half-way

Thirty-eight Lockheed Martin Motorola Iridium worldwide mobile communications satellites are now in orbit after the launch of a Boeing Delta 2 on 26 September, carrying five satellites from Vandenberg AFB, California. The $2.6 billion Iridium system will be declared operational in 1998, when 66 satellites will be in orbit. Twenty ...

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