Jake and Anthony are joined by Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium, to talk about what they’ve been up to lately, the state of the satellite communications industry, and to tell some stories from his career.

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• Off-Nominal - YouTube
• Episode 154 - They Ran Into Us (with Matt Desch) - YouTube
• Iridium Satellite Communications | Your World. Our Network.
• Iridium adds five years to constellation lifetime estimate - SpaceNews
• Amazon.com: Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story: 9780802126788: Bloom, John: Books

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