An operational and performance overview of the IRIDIUM low earth orbit satellite system

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

• Publication date

  1999-04-01

• Fields of study

  Physics, Computer Science, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1109/COMST.1999.5340513
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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