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    Teledesic was a company founded in the 1990s to build a commercial broadband satellite internet constellation. Using low-Earth-orbiting satellites small...
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    2016). "The Teledesic Network: Using Low-Earth-Orbit Satellites to Provide Broadband, Wireless, Real-Time Internet Access Worldwide". Teledesic Corporation...
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    business—including the challenges faced by companies such as Globalstar, Teledesic, and Iridium and the resulting drop in the anticipated number of commercial...
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    Teledesic, with an ambitious plan to form a broadband satellite communications system with hundreds of low Earth orbit satellites. In 2002, Teledesic...
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  • constellations were proposed and developed, including Celestri (63 satellites) and Teledesic (initially 840, later 288 satellites). These projects were abandoned after...
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    for bankruptcy protection in 1999, Globalstar did the same in 2002, and Teledesic suspended its satellite construction work in the same year. Spaceflight...
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    sector was Teledesic, an ambitious and ultimately failed project funded in part by Microsoft that ended up costing more than $9 billion. Teledesic's idea was...
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  • project, Will invest $750 million in rival Teledesic", Bloomberg News, May 22, 1998. de Selding, Peter B. "Teledesic Plays Its Last Card, Leaves the Game"...
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  • satellite constellation of 66 telecommunication satellites and the proposed Teledesic scheme; a damaged satellite could cause the catastrophic Kessler syndrome;...
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    1993. IET. pp. 306–311. Sturza, M. A. (June 1995). Architecture of the TELEDESIC satellite system. International Mobile Satellite Conference. Vol. 95....
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    (20/30 GHz) Global, low-latency broadband Internet services 1998 May Teledesic Teledesic 840 satellites at 700 km, 98.2° (21 planes) [1994 design] 288 satellites...
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  • Directors at Western Asset and has been a member of the Board of Directors at Teledesic, Pan American Silver, Ecolab, Hamilton Lane, FoodTrader.com, Republic...
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  • Networks +882-17 formerly AT&T International ATM Network +882-18 formerly Teledesic Global Network +882-19 formerly Telecom Italia Global Network +882-20...
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    commercial megaconstellations using around 100 satellites such as Celestri, Teledesic, Iridium, and Globalstar. However all entities entered bankruptcy by the...
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    1999, Owens served as vice chairman and co-chief executive officer of Teledesic LLC, a satellite communications company. In June 2003, he became the chairman...
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    Bank. Investments which turned out poorly included WorldCom, Priceline, Teledesic, and KirchMedia, besides Planet Hollywood and Euro Disney.: 133–137, 152 ...
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  • other proposed commercial satellite constellation projects, including Teledesic. Other schemes (Orbcomm, ICO Global Communications, and Globalstar) followed...
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  • couldn't stand long meetings. McCaw left daily operations to focus on Teledesic, passing control of AT&T Wireless to James Barksdale, and then Steve Hooper...
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  • Iridium Satellite LLC O3b Networks SkyWave Mobile Communications Starlink Teledesic TerreStar Thuraya Thales Alenia Space Orbcomm "Globalstar M073 - 103 (Globalstar-2)"...
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  • phone O3b Networks OnStar Sirius Satellite Radio EchoStar Mobile SkyTerra Teledesic TerreStar XM Satellite Radio "Pendrell to Delist November 30 (NASDAQ:PCO)...
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    satellite systems, including currently planned, and defunct proposals such as Teledesic (non-commercial) Satellite Phone FAQ (satellite phone services and equipment...
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  • Telecommunications network - Telecommunications traffic engineering - Teledesic - Telegraphy - Teleprinter - Telnet - The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Think...
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    couldn't stand long meetings. McCaw left daily operations to focus on Teledesic, passing control of AT&T Wireless to James Barksdale, and then Steve Hooper...
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    O3b Orbcomm Starlink Tianlian TDRS ViaSat WGS Proposed IRIS² OneWeb O3b mPOWER Kuiper Systems SpaceMobile Thousand Sails Abandoned Celestri Teledesic...
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  • Washington Shipyard Lamonts Onyx Software (acquired by Consona Corporation) Teledesic Wall Data GoDaddy Google Campus 1: currently expanding to three 60,000 sq ft...
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    when some of the largest satellite constellations, such as 288 satellite Teledesic network, were never built. In 1996, NASA selected Lockheed Martin Skunk...
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  • system. This is in comparison to other more ambitious systems such as Teledesic and Astrolink which retained their full global nature and which subsequently...
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    Iridium 50 Iridium 52 Iridium 53 Iridium 54 Iridium 56 Kakehashi SNOE Teledesic 1 Hot Bird 4 Intelsat 806 Progress M-38 (VDU-2) USA-138 SPOT 4 Iridium...
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    Boulder Low Earth Nitric Oxide research 13 December 2003 Successful Teledesic 1 Teledesic Low Earth Communications 9 October 2000 Successful 27 February 22:38...
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    Shopbeam, a shoppable ads startup. Earlier, he worked as vice president at Teledesic, the satellite-based Internet provider funded by Craig McCaw and Bill...
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