Iridium's fate is featured on the front of the NY Times business section today. You can view the story online but have to register (free) on the site. ...Tom NY Times, April 11, 2000 Iridium, Bankrupt, Is Planning a Fiery Ending for Its 88 Satellites By DAVID BARBOZA CHICAGO -- The jokes about the government using the satellites for "Star Wars" target practice don't seem so funny anymore. In the coming months, Iridium LLC, the bankrupt global satellite telephone company, will begin sending 88 giant satellites spiraling toward Earth, where they will burn up in a fitting and fiery end to one of the colossal corporate failures in recent memory. http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/biztech/articles/11iridium.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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