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A Telephone for the World : Iridium, Motorola, and the Making of a Global Age /
In June 1990, Motorola publicly announced an ambitious business venture called Iridium. The project's signature feature was a constellation of 77 satellites in low-Earth orbit which served as the equivalent of cellular towers, connecting to mobile customers below using wireless hand-held phones...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2018.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction
- Iridium and the global age
- The global and the engineers
- The global and Iridium the business
- "Freedom to communicate": ideology and culture in the global
- From "it's a bird, it's a phone ..." to "Edsels in the sky": or, the end of Iridium's global vision
- Conclusion.