Teledesic approval

1997-03-26T00:00:00

The US Federal Communications Commission has approved the deployment of 840 small communications-satellites in low-Earth orbit, starting in 2002, to provide the proposed $9 billion Teledesic multi-media service. The UK's University of Kent's space-debris research department says that the satellites could double the debris collision rate in orbit.

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