CC Newsletter 20 March 2000

[Kim & Rima McKinzey]

Got this from my husband's e-mail.  Thought I'd pass it along.  Rima

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>Deorbit.  This is the fate of the satellites being run by
>Iridium, the satellite phone company.  Deorbit.  You can
>read this term and find it benign, almost fanciful.  Awww,
>the little satellites are gonna deorbit and come back to
>Earth.  Well, no.  The satellite operation was scheduled to
>be shutdown Friday night triggering the inexorable fiery
>plunge into the atmosphere of $4.4 billion of equipment.
>The small size of the satellites virtually insures their
>complete incineration in the atmosphere, so we won't have
>little satellite crisps raining on people's noggins, but
>doesn't this waste seem a little absurd?   What do you
>think?  Could/should this venture have been saved, or is
>this an example of the market dictating true winners and
>losers?  Let me know at <webmaster at currents.net>
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