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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (18230)	3/16/2000 2:54:00 PM
From: clochard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

The real reson for the crash up: Wednesday March 15 5:24 PM ET Iridium Satellites to Burn in Debacle By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iridium, a U.S. satellite telephone company operating under bankruptcy protection, is on the verge of one of the most spectacular business flameouts ever -- literally set to burn up billions of dollars' worth of Earth-orbiting assets. Barring the last-minute arrival of a qualified buyer, the company plans to begin ``de-orbiting' the 66 satellites that make up the world's first low-orbit system for wireless telephone service. That means the network -- variously reported to have cost $5 billion to $7 billion -- would be vaporized as its satellites, bumped by their thrusters, plunge from 485 miles above the Earth in flames over the ocean. dailynews.yahoo.com