They occupy prime "real estate" in space, they also occupy prime real estate in the radio spectrum, (I am sure all radio astronomers are happy to see them go) and anyway you can bet that a hundred pencil-pushers have each run the numbers a thousand ways to come up with this result. Dale Ireland 47.7N 122.7W Astronomy Page http://www.drdale.com Comets, Satellites, Eclipses, Photography, Fabrications ----- Original Message ----- From: "L or C Foreman" Subject: Why de-orbit the iridium constellation? > but I don't understand why the iridium > constellation needs to be deorbited just because of financial failure by the > Iridium Corp. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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