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To: unclewest who wrote (18831)	2/14/2002 8:28:50 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>DOD made a deal with the buyers in late 1970 that has kept the system going<< Typo, late 2000 - December, to be precise. Iridium is good for DOD because they own their own "gateway" (ground station) so can encrypt transmissions. My guess is that spooks use it, too. Iridium transmissions are ground-to-bird-to-bird-to-bird-etc-to-ground. Globalstar (sorry, Mq) is ground-to-bird-to-ground-to-bird-to-ground-etc. Unfortunately, all the planned ground stations did not get deployed. Yet.