First Iridium launch seen early in January

Launch of the first three Iridium low-Earth orbit communications satellites is likely to come early next month, a little past the 1996 first-launch date Iridium has publicized in the past but still on schedule to support commercial service late in 1998, company officials said Tuesday. During a press...

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