Motorola completes Iridium constellation

1998-05-27T00:00:00

Motorola's planned 66-satellite fleet of Iridium worldwide mobile communications satellites were all in orbit on 17 May after the launch of five satellites on a Boeing Delta II from Vandenberg AFB, California.

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