Iridium Deploys Backup After Satellite Crash

By East Valley Tribune Mesa, Arizona
Operators of the Iridium satellite communications system said Monday they have completed the insertion of a backup satellite into orbit about 500 miles above the Earth’s surface to replace a satellite destroyed three weeks ago when it collided with a nonfunctioning Russian satellite over Siberia.

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