Houston, We Have a Phone Call
Science Now - And what of the phone bill? It’s not as astronomical as you’d expect. Shank says that the bulk of cost for the approximately 30-minute call comes from using the Iridium satellite, which runs 22 cents per minute. Getting the researchers to their
Undersea rover goes where men dare not
Asbury Park Press - The glider’s guidance computer programming includes a schedule for transmitting information by Iridium satellite telephone back to They didn’t drop one phone call.” Of course, he added, “in Antarctica, you have tropical storm Ernesto almost every day