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Launch Details

IRIDIUM / Delta II

The payload was five new satellites that will help keep the resurrected Iridium mobile communications system operating through the decade. The Iridium constellation relies upon 66 primary satellites working together in six groupings of 11 spacecraft each to cover virtually the entire planet from low-Earth orbit.

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