Comments on: Inmarsat Mobile Satellite to be launched from Kazakhstan http://www.intomobile.com/2008/08/24/inmarsat-mobile-satellite-to-be-launched-from-kazakhstan.html Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:11:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Snidely http://www.intomobile.com/2008/08/24/inmarsat-mobile-satellite-to-be-launched-from-kazakhstan.html/comment-page-1/#comment-309217 Snidely Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:00:35 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2008/08/24/inmarsat-mobile-satellite-to-be-launched-from-kazakhstan.html#comment-309217 Minor quibble - Inmarsat satellites are not really "mobile". Because of the huge distance to a GEO orbit, you still need a laptop-sized device to connect. Still it's great for sailors and the shipping industry. Baikonur is great - middle of absolutely nowhere. Try to find some footage of a Proton launch. They roll the rocket up to the pad on a train (while horizontal), stand it straight up and launch. Protons used to carry nukes in the Cold War days. Watching the launch sequence is like getting a preview of what the end of the world would have looked like. Neat stuff. Minor quibble – Inmarsat satellites are not really “mobile”. Because of the huge distance to a GEO orbit, you still need a laptop-sized device to connect. Still it’s great for sailors and the shipping industry.

Baikonur is great – middle of absolutely nowhere. Try to find some footage of a Proton launch. They roll the rocket up to the pad on a train (while horizontal), stand it straight up and launch. Protons used to carry nukes in the Cold War days. Watching the launch sequence is like getting a preview of what the end of the world would have looked like. Neat stuff.

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