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Iridium's Desch: NEXT Satellite Launch Will Boost Growth(Audio) · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 1: listening to are taking stock with bim box in gap
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  Speaker 1: Lee Hayes on Bloomberg Radio. How do you change the
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  Speaker 1: tire on an automobile that is traveling at seventeen thousand
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  Speaker 1: miles per hour? Well, your first test would be to
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  Speaker 1: call Matt desh He is the chief executive of a
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  Speaker 1: Ridium Communications. They're based in Washington, d C. Matt joins
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  Speaker 1: me here in the studio. Thank you very much for
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  Speaker 1: being here. Thanks for having me phim. Now you notice
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  Speaker 1: I started with this idea of trying to change attire
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  Speaker 1: while the cars traveling at seventeen thousand miles per hour.
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  Speaker 1: I want to use that as the segue to get
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  Speaker 1: you just to explain what is the satellite swap and
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  Speaker 1: how does that fit into what a Ridium does. Well.
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  Speaker 1: Aridium runs the world's largest satellite constellations. We have satellite constellation.
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  Speaker 1: We have sixty six satellites today, as you said, flying
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  Speaker 1: around the planet at seventeen thousand miles an hour, about
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  Speaker 1: four hundred and eighty five miles above the planet, which
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  Speaker 1: is quite low. But they all need to be replaced.
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  Speaker 1: And they're nineteen years old, and we have been working
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  Speaker 1: for the last six or seven years to build brand
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  Speaker 1: new satellites. And as you said, they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: launching very soon. And and we have who replaced them
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  Speaker 1: one by one in space. It's very careful operation, highly researched.
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  Speaker 1: We we put the two satellites up next to each other,
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  Speaker 1: which in space terms is maybe twenty miles apart, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, literally within microseconds you drop the links to
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  Speaker 1: one and put and reconnect them to the new one.
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  Speaker 1: Customers on the ground don't even know that they're their
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  Speaker 1: call was interrupted and the new satellite is operating for
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  Speaker 1: the next fifteen to twenty years. Uh. And everybody asked,
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  Speaker 1: what do you do with the old satellites, Well, we
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  Speaker 1: have to bring them out of orbit, so over the
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  Speaker 1: you know, two thousand eighteen will be exciting year as
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  Speaker 1: we do or but all those satellites and they burned
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  Speaker 1: up in the atmosphere. Has this ever been accomplished before? No? No,
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  Speaker 1: In fact, you could call this one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: tech refreshes in history. Um three billion dollars satellite network.
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  Speaker 1: Not not for the faint of heart, but it's such
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  Speaker 1: a powerful network because it does things that no other
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  Speaker 1: network does. When we thought about the fact that we
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  Speaker 1: had to place that, we we didn't want to take
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  Speaker 1: away that competitive advantage we have over every other system.
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  Speaker 1: So we said, we've got to really make it so
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  Speaker 1: it'll be a seamless transition from one to the other.
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  Speaker 1: So it takes a little more work and effort, but
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  Speaker 1: it's worth it. And as part of that effort, you've
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  Speaker 1: got two new services with this launch, right, You've got
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  Speaker 1: Certace and air on yabout that, Yeah, So the new
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  Speaker 1: satellites are much more powerful and we had some extra
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  Speaker 1: space on them too, so instead of just being a
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  Speaker 1: communications provider, we wanted to do it even better than
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  Speaker 1: last time. So Services our brand name for a broadband
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  Speaker 1: service that enables very small devices to operate up to
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  Speaker 1: one point for megabus per second. But maybe even the
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  Speaker 1: more revolutionary one is the area on one, which is
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  Speaker 1: we are going to track every airplane, every commercial aircraft
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  Speaker 1: in the world, no matter where it is, in real
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  Speaker 1: time and provide that information to air traffic controllers so
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  Speaker 1: they can provide better service to two airlines and more
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  Speaker 1: direct routes, fuel savings, and of course we won't be
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  Speaker 1: missing any airplanes any longer in MH three seventies. Pretty
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  Speaker 1: unlikely if we know, literally down to the second, where
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  Speaker 1: every airplane is. Now. This is all going to take
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  Speaker 1: place at Vandenburg Air Force Base in California. This is
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  Speaker 1: where the launch is scheduled in September. That's right. If
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  Speaker 1: we were to go to the base today, what would
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  Speaker 1: we see. Well, we just started the process of processing
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  Speaker 1: the first batch of satellites, so we we launched Keen
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  Speaker 1: satellites at a time five on a lower tier five
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  Speaker 1: on an upper tier. It's the heaviest payload that SpaceX
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  Speaker 1: has launched. Uh. SpaceX is the company that makes the rocket,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. This is the Falcon nine rocket that will
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  Speaker 1: be taking us to space. We we we were one
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  Speaker 1: of their earliest customers, so we took a bet on
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  Speaker 1: them seven years ago or so. I knew that they
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  Speaker 1: fit our profiles very well, and we've kind of grown
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  Speaker 1: up together. They've become quite successful as that we and
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  Speaker 1: we're ready now to use seven of their rockets to
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  Speaker 1: launch seventies satellites over the next eighteen months. It's quite,
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  Speaker 1: as you said, a dance in space of constantly putting
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  Speaker 1: satellites up, positioning themselves, drifting them between planes, moving them
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  Speaker 1: into position, swapping satellites. It's going to be a very
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  Speaker 1: very busy, uh eighteen months. But yes, SpaceX is going
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  Speaker 1: to launch us out of Annaberg Air Force Base starting
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  Speaker 1: on September nineteen for the first one, and then the
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  Speaker 1: next launch will be in December, and then February and
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  Speaker 1: every two months after until we're done. I gotta have
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  Speaker 1: you just described as quickly as you can the history
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  Speaker 1: of a ridium, because this was, by no means a
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  Speaker 1: short thing. That we would get these launches done. No,
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  Speaker 1: we have quite a history going back to the early
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  Speaker 1: nineties when Motorola envisioned this company to compete with cell
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  Speaker 1: phones globally and probably spent six billion dollars or something
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  Speaker 1: during the the high growth nineties, launched the system to
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  Speaker 1: great fanfare, went bankrupt one years later in the biggest
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  Speaker 1: bankrupt ever in history, at least for a week until
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  Speaker 1: Enron happened. And uh, and then we started. We really
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  Speaker 1: took the company in two thousand. In the last sixteen years,
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  Speaker 1: it's grown to be quite a profitable, large, successful company,
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  Speaker 1: able to replace its satellite networks. And it's probably a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are surprised when they hear the name
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  Speaker 1: of Ridium because they remember the nineties. But we're not
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  Speaker 1: that company anymore. We're we're quite new, successful, thriving company.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for coming in and sharing this
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  Speaker 1: with us. Is the chief executive of a Ridium Communications.
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  Speaker 1: They are based in Washington, d C. And the first
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  Speaker 1: launch of the next generation constellation of satellites is September
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  Speaker 1: from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California. You're listening to
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