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To: Nancy Haft who wrote (8182)	11/4/1999 6:10:00 PM
From: ccryder	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 29987

Oct 18 Businesswire news report said a launch on Soyuz in November and a launch on Delta II in December. I would tend to believe them regarding the Delta launch but the recent Proton crash places the Soyuz launch in jeopardy, IMO. The usually reliable www.flatoday.com lists Nov 14 for Soyuz (but no time is set--and this is a bad sign this close to launch) and no mention is made about Dec for Delta II. There are 44 sats in orbit now and the latest 4 should be on station in about another week or so (generally it takes about a month to get them all separated and in the right place). It takes 48 to fill the constellation so the next launch is important in the timing of the rollout. During the Geneva exposition, being short 8 satellites in the constellation could very well have cause periodic difficulties. In mid Nov, being short only 4 satellites, chances of customer dissatisfaction with dropped calls is reduced so some rollout in Nov and Dec is probably a good compromise.