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To: kitterykid who wrote (5540)	7/5/1999 10:48:00 PM
From: Valueman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

Airtouch wants one price, including long distance, for all of North America. Iridium 48 and 85 are tumbling according to SeeSat enthusiasts. These are new to me, but may be included in the 13 you count. I haven't tallied them up in ages. July 6, 1999 Proton rocket disappears minutes after launch By Justin Ray FLORIDA TODAY CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A Russian Proton rocket was launched Monday sporting the new Breeze M upper stage motor, but the fate of the mission became clouded in mystery minutes later. Ground observers following the launch reported they lost contact with the booster just over four minutes into flight, U.S. sources told Space Online soon after the rocket's 9:32 a.m. EDT (1332 GMT) liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakstan. The three-stage Proton K core vehicle was slated to hurl the new Breeze M upper stage and a Russian Raduga military communications satellite into Earth orbit. But engineers said about 275 seconds after liftoff the telemetry link with the rocket was lost. At that point in flight, the rocket would have been in the second stage of flight, approaching stage separation and ignition of the third stage. It is not known if the rocket suffered a catastrophic failure or if a simple telemetry relay problem is to blame for the blackout. However, later news reports from Moscow said the Proton core vehicle worked for its 10-minute climb to space and the trouble occurred after the satellite was in orbit. The stories said 10 minutes after the Raduga spacecraft was placed in a preliminary orbit, it stopped responding to signals from mission control, and all communications signals from the satellite were lost. The Interfax news agency also cited an unnamed Defense Ministry official as saying the satellite probably fell in the Altai region of Siberia, 1,750 miles east of Moscow. As of late Monday evening, publically available orbital tracking data from United States Space Command had yet to identify any objects in space from this launch. Launch officials with rocket maker Krunichev had not declared a mission failure as of Monday afternoon. Once an official announcement is made on the results of the launch, Krunichev was expected to inform officials in the U.S. at International Launch Services. ILS was formed in 1995 by Lockheed Martin, Krunichev and Energia to globally market the Proton and American Atlas rockets. But given the time difference, ILS was not expected to provide any further information until later today. Monday's launch was designed as a test flight for the new Breeze M fourth stage, which is capable of placing payloads into high-energy geosynchronous transfer orbits or directly into geosynchronous orbit. The Proton booster fleet has a busy launch schedule ahead in 1999. A series of Russian launches are scheduled by Krunichev, plus a half-dozen commercial ILS launches. In addition, a Proton rocket is slated to launch the Zvezda service module for the International Space Station on Nov. 20. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To: kitterykid who wrote (5540)	7/5/1999 11:20:00 PM
From: TMann	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

Maurice, Drew, Vman, etc.: Excellent discussion on marketing and pricing policies for service initiation (we have some sharp cookies here). My understanding, however, is G* is at the mercy of service providers to set retail pricing for both service and handsets. I'm not aware of any leverage G* has with them except the minimum payments required to keep exclusivity. So all of our ranting and raving and excellent suggestions can only be implemented by G* if they offer special pricing to service providers with condition that they pass along the specials to customers. As such has anyone passed along to G* these suggestions/recommendations?? Who should we contact?? I for one am a firm believer in a teaser rate to set the hook. I've been a Sprint PCS subscriber for over a year on a $16.99/month special thats due to expire in 1/2000. Due to excellent performance, I'll likely renew albeit at higher rates. No reason this couldn't work for G* too, on a limited basis of course. Another suggestion I'd like to pass on to G* and Airtouch. It dawned on me today that the QCOM omnitracks users would be excellent targets for G* service. Perhaps Air and Qcom could jointly market the phones and kits with special pricing to help develop market rapidly and provide greater customer service. That's my 2cents. Keep those good ideas a flowin...