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Technology Stocks : Orbital science (ORB) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (1436)	4/11/1998 10:46:00 PM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2394

I like ORBI's approach to LEO commsats... message vs voice, keep the space segment simple and cheap, and use a bent pipe ground segment instead of sophisticated space crosslinks, etc. Iridium and similar systems are fancy, but at $3 per minute (which I think will be a buy-in, or subsidized price), I wonder how many subscribers they will get. And constellation replenishment is going to be a challenge. Until we get launch costs down and get smarter on mass producing LEO commsats, the ORBI approach is the way to go. JMHO.