Iridium back from the dead  Satellite comms network saved!    •
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flash storage  Iridium, the ill-fated cellphone-by-satellite
service that collapsed earlier this year, is to be saved from
destruction.  When the company went bust, its chief investor,
Motorola, which also had the contract to maintain the service's
network of 66 satellites, said with no buyers in sight, all that
space-bound hardware would be knocked out of orbit to burn up in
the Earth's atmosphere.  Not any more. An operation calling
itself Iridium Satellite (IS) yesterday announced the US
Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York had
agreed to allow it purchase Iridium's assets, including all
those satellites.  IS is headed by one Dan Colussy, a veteran of
the airline business. In the past he has run Canadian Pacific
Airlines and Pan American World Airways (remember them?)  His
new company will initially provide the US government with
cellphone services - presumably pickin