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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (26121)	10/4/2006 11:43:51 AM
From: ebg51	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29986

<<It's also nice to see that a new constellation would take only $1 billion instead of $4 billion [the first one]. >> I don't get the $1 Billion figure. First you have to figure inflation from 10 yrs ago. You have to figure NRE (Non-Recurring Expense) or development work. Production and assmbly of Satellites. Launch of said satellites, and IOT (In-Orbit testing. Your $1 Billion might work for 2 or maybe 3 GEO's but not LEO's.You need a minimum of 3 birds for a GEO Network. Geo's will produce unacceptable time lag for speech. How will the LEO's & GEO's interact with each other, or will they? How will the new system work with the existing gateways? Or will they at all? These are the Billion dollar questions. One note in favor of all you optimists out there. When I first saw the design for G*, and the complexity of the Beam-forming network to form 16 beams, I said to myself, this thing will never fly or work right. It's too complicated and there are too many things that can go wrong. But it did work. However the money & not the technology is what did the system in.