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"Silicon Sky" ebook introduction:

The small start-up of the title, now a darling of investors, is Orbital Satellite Corporation. At a time when the U.S. government’s space programs had slid into a pattern of what aerospace historian Alex Roland called gargantuan missions, overwrought technology and excessive budgets, David Thompson--the driving spirit and CEO of Orbital--saw an opportunity for commercial success in space. His idea was to put up a constellation of small satellites in orbit a few hundred miles above the earth to provide such consumer services as telecommunications, position finding and vehicle navigation.

Silicon Sky