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There's an excellent and fascinating book that describes, among many other things, how the satellites were saved from being "de-orbited" (crashed) about 20 year
by fliptail 8y ago
There's an excellent and fascinating book that describes, among many other things, how the satellites were saved from being "de-orbited" (crashed) about 20 years ago. It's called Eccentric Orbits.
https://www.amazon.com/Eccentric-Orbits-Iridium-John-Bloom/dp/0802126782 https://www.amazon.com/Eccentric-Orbits-Iridium-John-Bloom/d...
- ehsankia 8y agoHere's an example of how to misplaces satellites were used to test General Relativity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKwJayXTZUs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKwJayXTZUs
- n0pe_p0pe 8y agoEccentric Orbits was one of my favorite reads from last year. This article also gives a pretty decent tl;dr: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d34bmk/iridium-next-satellite-constellation-spacex-desch https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d34bmk/iridium-ne...
- jonathankoren 8y agoYeah, I was at Motorola when they were supposed to be deorbited. I knew a guy that worked in the lab when they went through the lab to start to destroy all the equipment as part of the liquidation process. He saved one of the iconic brick handsets for me. No sim card. Just Accelerated Life Test Unit 4. It's been a proud possession of mine for years.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoPlease make sure it ends up in a museum eventually.
- jonathankoren 8y agoI believe the Computer History Museum already has one.