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To: Mr. Adrenaline who wrote (3963)	4/20/1999 7:19:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29987

Teledesic orbit Mr A. you wrote: "...But the folks at Teledesic chose a perfectly polar orbit, that means the circle collapses to a point. And guess what?! All of those 288 satellite's orbits intersect!..." But that isn't many = they'd be very far apart and since they will have satellite jockeys, surely they can just time them over the pole so that they miss by a mile. Burn a bit of gas if one was going a bit too quickly to put it back on a non-crash orbit. With GPS navigation, they'd have heaps of room. There would be about 1 satellite per 23.14159 seconds at 1413 km altitude going over the pole. Maybe they'll be much lower, but they won't be less than 10 seconds apart, so that's heaps of time too. You can watch marching teams and they march in formation through each other's ranks in perfect timing and don't crash. It looks like fun. Maurice