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To: Mr. Adrenaline who wrote (4032)	4/21/1999 9:24:00 PM
From: Drew Williams	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29987

In between celebrating QCOM's meteoric rise (using an astronomical metaphor to relate to GlobalStar's business plan) I've been trying to follow and understand the high-techie discussion about longevity and fuel and orbital planes (and Ooh! my English major brain is starting to ache!) It seems to me that the mathematics of this should not be too difficult to figure for somebody with the appropriate expertise and information. (Not me, obviously.) That person would need to know the altitude the launch vehicle delivers it to, the altitude and inclination of its specified orbit, the mass (broken out by fuel and payload), and the propulsion efficiency (how much thrust per kg of propellant). I suppose there are a few other factors, but those seem to be the big ones. Seems to me the GlobalStar engineers would have all this information and should be able to say, "If everything functions to specification, it is not smacked upside the head while taking a Leonid shower and God willin' the creek don't rise that high, this satellite should be able to stay in an appropriate orbit for X amount of months and years, plus or minus Y days or weeks." Isn't it about that simple? So, don't we know all those things? In which case, why don't we have an answer? Am I completely off base? Obviously, I am much better at asking questions than providing answers. My investment in GlobaStar was (pre-Zenit) my largest position. Not any more (boo hoo.) Hoping for a comeback in September.