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TU SAT 1
-> News -> TU SAT 1 vs. Iridium
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TU Sat 1, to be launched in 2002, will be a world-wide
low-cost e-mail communications satellite.
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Iridium, launched in 1998, was the first world-wide commercial
satellite communications network. |
| Number of Satellites: 1
Height of Orbit: 650 km
Transmission Rate: 115 kbps
Cost of System: $130,000 |
Number of Satellites: 66
Height of Orbit: 780 km
Transmission Rate: 2.4 kbps
Cost of System: $5 Billion |
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