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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 09:17:03 EST
- From: rkc@maestro.bellcore.com (Ramakrishna Chamarthy)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Iridium Global Satelite Mobile Communications Network
- Message-ID: <telecom12.908.4@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 908, Message 4 of 18
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- The name "Iridium" for Motoroola's Project for a System of 77
- Satellites was based on the fact that "77" is the Atomic Number for
- "Iridium".
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- Now, that the number of satellites in this project is (likely to be)
- changed from 77 to 66, is there going to be a "change" in the name of
- the project? :-) :-)
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- Just curious.
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- Ramakrishna E-mail: rkc@maestro.bellcore.com
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