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Globalstar flies highest, with orbits at ~1400 km. Starlink is at ~340-550 km. Per satellite, a higher altitude sees a larger portion and provides greater angular visibility of the Earth's surface at any one time. Globalstar is suited for low-power devices, emergency sat messaging, and IoT, not broadband speed. One reason they made a good fit with the iPhone. Also the valuable spectrum.

Globalstar is a study in corporate survival. It lives on while its 90’s cohort Iridium didn’t make it.

Consider the journey:

2002: Bankruptcy.

2007: Satellite amplifier failures threatened its voice service.

2010–2013: A replacement constellation helped restore capacity.

2022: Apple's iPhone Emergency SOS gave Globalstar a major new purpose.

2024: Apple committed approximately $1.5 billion in investment and infrastructure funding.

Now: This acquisition by Amazon would bring Globalstar's satellite assets and spectrum into Amazon's competition with Starlink, while preserving satellite services for Apple devices.

Iridium has a museum: iridium museum.com

Their World Cup teams are insufferable.

Someone needs to ask Musk how much the Roadster car shell weighed during the flying demo. Then ask for an estimate when they will do a genuine demo with a 2000lb battery.

Airbus > Boeing

Add Tableau to this list. Claude natural language produces better visualizations. The constant which will survive traditional BI is the data warehouse not the presentation layer.

There’s em dashes in that 1978 article.

I wonder how this mission compares in scale to the JAXA Hayabusa comet interceptor done twenty years ago.

The new release of Claude Project (beta) does this.

What is safety versus security?

> salty that he did not get recognition; claims RLCD without justification

This salty meta is definitely written by a human.