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Iridium Pushes Ahead Satellite Project
oxide7 writes "Iridium (IRDM) continues its push into the market for satellite data and telemetry services, as it announced the company that would build its second generation of satellites. Iridium's old network of 66 satellites was designed for voice calls; the new satellites will also be able to handle data more efficiently, and include cameras as well. The company also plans to share the satellite platforms with some scientists for use in studying the Earth."
This is it, once google connects to this network, we will never be able to turn it off once it becomes sentient...
Whose to say it hasn't and slyly guided the engineers to push this technology as part of its plan...
On the plus side, they should be able to absolutely cash in on the heavily subsidized "US puppet warlords in dusty hellholes with dubious cell coverage who need to chat with their CIA handlers" market...
Sure they couldn't recoup their costs... but they made it up in volume!