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To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (5079)	6/6/1999 11:24:00 AM
From: Valueman	Read Replies (1) of 29987

Actually, they will need all 4 Deltas to start service. As has been alluded to here a few weeks back, and confirmed by IR, the 4 sats from the last Soyuz are not being raised to a single plane. They are being put one at a time into 4 different planes. That means we will end up with 4 planes of 5 sats each, and 4 planes of 4 sats each. The first of August Delta will get us 32 sats, but there will be one unfilled plane. Gotta have the next one to fill us up. I have notes from somewhere saying that a 32 sat constellation gives a 7% dropped call rate--not acceptable. A 36 sat constellation is 1.5%. With 40 and up, we near perfection. The trick will be getting the rest of the sats into their planes. Not sure how all that will work out after the 8 planes have a minimum of 4 sats each. It takes time to get sats into different planes. Those 4 Soyuz launched sats will likely take months to get where they should be. The process for the other Soyuz launched sats and the follow-up Deltas is an unknown to me, but certainly it will take more time than one month per launch.

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