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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSAT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tarken Winn who wrote (10836)	3/15/2000 8:01:00 AM
From: Carter Patterson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Its a very good question....I would encourage you to read George Gilder...www.gildertech.com. I believe it was his January newsletter. The problem w/ geostationary satellites is that the speed of light is simply to slow. Such a system would have unacceptable delays between two callers trying to talk to one another. G* system is roughly 150 miles in orbit...a geo orbit is 22,300 miles. Since data has to travel to the satellite and back, we are talking about a minimum of 44,600 miles. If the call were to somebody on the other side of the planet, the distance could be much greater.