A Telephone for the World : Iridium, Motorola, and the Making of a Global Age by Martin Collins
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Overview: In June 1990, Motorola publicly announced an ambitious business venture called Iridium. The project’s signature feature was a constellation of 77 satellites in low-Earth orbit which served as the equivalent of cellular towers, connecting to mobile customers below using wireless hand-held phones. As one of the founding engineers noted, the constellation ‘bathed the planet in radiation,’ enabling a completely global communications system.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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