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Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story

By John Bloom
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By John Bloom
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"Good corporate drama . . . an enlightening narrative of how new communications infrastructures often come about." —The Economist, "A Book of the Year 2016"

In the early 1990s, Motorola developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Its constellation of 66 satellites in polar orbit was a mind—boggling technical accomplishment, surely the future of communication. The only problem was that Iridium the company was a commercial disaster. O...

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