ALMOST THERE
The Iridium mobile telephone constellation is now 80% deployed following last week's launch of five more satellites into low-Earth orbit on a Delta 2 booster. With 56 of the system's 66 operational satellites in orbit, the $5-billion venture has begun a six-month countdown to the start of commercial...
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