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To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (4058)	4/22/1999 12:51:00 PM
From: Jeff Vayda	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

Dont loose site of the actual life of the sats should exceed the contracts requirements of "...full use, 7.5 years minimum..." . I am not familiar with the safety factors and such they used but I would say 1.2 - 1.5 would not be unreasonable. That would put an expected (in-house) design life to 10 years. Any one care to send me a private email and confirm the numbers? Jeff Vayda

To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (4058)	4/22/1999 3:07:00 PM
From: John Stichnoth	Respond to of 29987

R.S.--It would seem, however that these first generation birds should not necessarily be expected to have unusually long lives. In the next 7 years the initial birds will allow G* to finetune both their marketing and the technology they bring to bear on their objectives. I wouldn't be surprised, for instance, if they decided the ideal market was in broadband data, and decided to put up sats that were twice as big, could handle ten times as much traffic with 100 times the bandwidth. And, of course included 5 times as many satellites. (All backward compatible, of course). That second generation would have a much longer period to obsolescence, thus designing to the longer life would be more rewarding financially. The next generation would have so much capacity, perhaps, that the little tiny bent pipes supplied by the original 52 sats would be trivial. Do you have any info on how development of the sats might go, down the road? My only reference is to some "x-CDMA" variants intended for terrestrial use.