Iridium Tests Satellite Software on the Ground
Credit: NASA
Engineers at Iridium Satellite LLC have hired the services of a Silicon Valley simulation firm to help them deal with the problems of controlling and upgrading the company's 77 low Earth orbit communications satellites, all of them slightly different. With the spacecraft out of reach in their 485-mi...
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