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The Rise and Fall and Rise of Iridium

机译：铱的兴衰

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It was 11:30 on a Friday night in 2003 when Mark Adams got a call at his home in suburban Virginia. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center was on the line, looking for a pilot missing in the vast northern forests of the state. The flier had been carrying a telephone serviced by Iridium, a global satellite network for whom Adams is the chief technical officer. In 2000 Iridium had come within a whisker of disappearing itself, but it lived to transmit again, thanks to the magic of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Alaskan pilot wasn't so lucky. Iridium has staff on duty 24-7 to support the technical operations of the system, and though Adams spent several hours that night coordinating an effort to identify the approximate location of the flier's last transmission, by the time rangers found the man, he was dead. Since that Friday night call (which Adams got because a friend associated with the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center just happened to remember that he worked at Iridium), Adams, 40, has aided in a dozen successful rescues, most memorably one of a pilot with engine trouble off South America's Cape Horn. Thanks to Irid-ium, the pilot arranged an emergency landing on a snow-covered speck of an island in the far south Atlantic. The derring-do is a small part of the chief technologist's work. But for Adams, an MIT research engineer with a Bill Gates anti-haircut who when asked to give a visitor driving directions goes to a white board, it symbolizes the lurch his life took four years ago toward adventure and the outer envelope of information science.
机译：2003年的一个星期五晚上是11:30，马克·亚当斯（Mark Adams）在他位于弗吉尼亚郊区的家接到电话。阿拉斯加救援协调中心在电话线上，寻找该州北部广阔森林中失踪的飞行员。飞行人员一直在携带由铱星提供服务的电话，铱星是全球卫星网络，亚当斯是其首席技术官。在2000年，铱逐渐消失了，但由于第11章破产的魔力，铱又活了下来。阿拉斯加的飞行员并不那么幸运。铱星有专职人员24-7来支持系统的技术操作，尽管亚当斯当晚花了几个小时来协调努力，以识别飞行员最后一次发射的大致位置，但在护林员发现该男子时，他已经死了。自从星期五晚上的电话会议（亚当斯之所以收到电话，是因为与阿拉斯加救援协调中心相关的一个朋友刚好记得他曾在铱星工作过），现年40岁的亚当斯已经协助了十多次成功的救援行动，其中最难忘的是一名飞行员摆脱南美合恩角的麻烦。多亏了铱星，飞行员安排了紧急降落在大西洋南部一个岛屿的冰雪覆盖的斑点上。伪装只是首席技术专家的一小部分。但是，对于麻省理工学院的研究工程师亚当斯来说，这是一个比尔·盖茨的反理发方式，当他被要求给出访客驾车路线时，他去了白板，这象征着他四年前的生活陷入冒险和信息科学的困境。

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