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To: djane who wrote (7701)	10/3/1999 11:54:00 PM
From: djane	Respond to of 29987

Globalstar prepares to launch commercial service FLORIDA TODAY Space Online "Planet Earth's best source for online space news" Oct. 4, 1999 By Justin Ray FLORIDA TODAY CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The space-based Globalstar cellular telephone and communications system is one week away from rolling out its service. The company plans to launch the first phase of commercial service as part of Geneva Telecom 99 running from Oct. 10 to 17. At the show, officials will demonstrate their satellite-based phone products such as lightweight portable phones, fixed phones and payphones. Globalstar is nearing completion of its campaign to launch a 48-satellite constellation of low-Earth orbiting satellites that will be used to relay phone calls and paging transmissions. To date, 40 spacecraft have been launched by 10 rockets. With 36 satellites in the orbiting network, Globalstar could support its wireless system to users virtually anywhere in the populated world. Further spacecraft will make the system more robust and ready to support a capacity of 7.5 million users. Over the past 19 months, six Boeing Delta 2s have successfully deployed 24 craft from Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida and four Starsem Soyuz rockets carried 16 satellites into space from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakstan. Two remaining Soyuz launches are scheduled later this month and in November to complete the primary fleet of Globalstar satellites. A Delta will follow in December to place four spare spacecraft into orbit. Officials say the first series of voice calls, testing the satellite air interface, gateways, telephone units and public switched telephone network connections have already been completed successfully. Globalstar is based in San Jose, Calif., and was founded by Loral Space & Communications and Qualcomm Inc. Use of this site signifies your agreement to the Terms of Service updated February 1998. Please e-mail comments or questions about this page to Space Online Editor Mark DeCotis. Contact Space Online Manager Jim Banke to inquire about becoming a sponsor. This World Wide Web site is copyright ¸ 1999 FLORIDA TODAY.