Hundreds of miles above Earth, a new breed of satellite system is set to revolutionise the way telephone calls are bounced around the globe. Iridium last week began to offer commercial services via its constellation of satellites. As rivals develop competing systems, an ?orbital revolution' is beginning. Phil Jones reports on the lights in our skies which are only a few metres across, but could have an immense effect on the way we communicate
If you stare into the sky at the fireworks celebrating the failure of one of the world?s unluckiest revolutionaries, you may glimpse an entirely different kind of revolutionary. The revolutionary...
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