DoD utilizes bankrupt Iridium satellites
Boeing won a contract to develop the bankrupt Iridium communication satellites for DoD. See an article here. Iridium is a network of low earth orbit satellites that were to be used to provide telephonic communication. Motorola had led the original consortium that put the satellites in orbit, but they company went bankrupt. [...]
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