Further failures threaten Iridium start-up date

Seven of the 72 Motorola mobile communications satellites launched into low earth orbit over the past 13 months have now failed, following the recent malfunctions of two additional spacecraft. Failure of a planned launch of a Delta booster carrying five satellites in August would jeopardise the scheduled start-up of the ...

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