Eccentric Orbits by John Bloom6/22/2023 ![]() Bankruptcy was inevitable–the largest to that point in American history. Only months after launching service, it was $11 billion in debt, burning through $100 million a month and crippled by baroque rate plans and agreements that forced calls through Moscow, Beijing, Fucino, Italy, and elsewhere. The only problem was that Iridium the company was a commercial disaster. Light years ahead of anything previously put into space, and built on technology developed for Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars,” Iridium’s constellation of 66 satellites in polar orbit meant that no matter where you were on Earth, at least one satellite was always overhead, and you could call Tibet from Fiji without a delay and without your call ever touching a wire.Iridium the satellite system was a mind-boggling technical accomplishment, surely the future of communication. In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American technology company developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. ![]() You can read this before Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story written by John Bloom which was published in June 7, 2016. Brief Summary of Book: Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story by John Bloom ![]()
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