Motorola launched Iridium's 66-satellite phone network in 1998; the venture went bankrupt within a year after spending about five billion dollars, and investors later bought the constellation for twenty-five million. Investors read it as a case of a large capital project whose demand forecast was wrong and whose assets still had value in a restructuring. Bloom's Eccentric Orbits is the detailed account of the collapse and the rescue.
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