A Telephone for the World: Iridium, Motorola, and the Making of a Global Age

by Martin J. Collins

In a post-Cold War world, the Iridium satellite network revealed a new age of globalization.

Winner of the William and Joyce Middleton Electrical Engineering History Award by the IEEE

In June 1990, Motorola publicly announced an ambitious business venture called Iridium. The project's signature feature was a constellation of 77 satellites in low-Earth orbit which served as the equivalent of cellular towers, connecting to mobile...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421424835
• ISBN13: 9781421424835
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher