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Published on Saturday, Jul 04, 2009
Associated Press
The world's largest commercial satellite was launched into space this week, with a mission to provide phone service to cellular ''dead zones'' in North America.
The satellite is owned by TerreStar Corp. of Reston, Va. The satellite launcher, France's Arianespace, announced that the TerreStar-1 had separated successfully to an orbit 22,000 miles above the Earth.
The satellite will pick up and relay signals from phones that will be much larger than regular cell phones. TerreStar has shown prototypes of the phones, which are similar to BlackBerrys, and like them, would have access to data and e-mail. The phones aren't on sale yet. TerreStar plans to have the system running before the end of the year.
Associated Press
The world's largest commercial satellite was launched into space this week, with a mission to provide phone service to cellular ''dead zones'' in North America.
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Tallmadge, Oh
Posted 12:39 PM, 07/04/2009
Hmmm. Current cell phones have a range of what, maybe 5-7 miles to the nearest cell tower?
And now these new phones will need to transmit to a satellite which is over 22,300 miles high?
And we still have fools who argue that cell phone use does not affect the brain. With the added power needed to transmit to a satellite, does anyone really believe that these phones will not be dangerous, causing brain cancer or other malfunctions of the brain (which uses mild electrical energy to bridge the synapses)?
