Eccentric Orbits
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Eccentric Orbits
John Bloom
5 people recommended it in 2 threads, 2019–2025.
What people on Hacker News said
Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story Book about Dan Colussy, who somehow managed to rescue Iridium satellite network when it was weeks away from bankruptcy and being deliberately crashed into the ocean.
Before the next wave of Internet-from-space companies fly by, I'm going to delve in to the last great bubble. John Bloom's "Eccentric Orbits," mainly about the life and death and rebirth of Iridium–but also covering all of that company's even less successful peers–came out in 2016, but somehow I missed it until now.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things 2025 · 4 recommendations
- Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020? 2019 · 1 recommendation