据报载,我国长城工业总公司拟用改进型长征二号丙运载火箭为美国摩托罗拉公司发射多颗代号为“铱星”的低轨道卫星。对实现跨世纪,跨国界的个人通信将迈出可喜的一步。 “个人通信”是“全球每个人通信”的简称,意思是说,你只要有一台通信机在手,就可以在任何时间与位于地球上任何地方的任何一个人直接沟通联络,事先可不必知道对方位于何处,只要知道他的电话号码就是了。这时,时空情况对通信已不再成为约束条件。地球形似一个小小的村落,每个人随时随地都可很方便地找到他的好友亲朋。“身带电话走天下,随时随地可通话”,半个多世纪来一直是科幻小说中的 It is reported that China’s Great Wall Industrial Corporation intends to launch a number of low-orbit satellites, code-named “Iridium”, for the United States Motorola Company with a modified Long March II C rocket. It will be a welcome step toward personal communication across the centuries and across borders. “Personal Communication” is short for “Everyone in the world,” meaning that as long as you have a communicator in your hand, you can communicate directly with anyone at any time anywhere on Earth without prior knowledge Where is the other side, as long as know his phone number. At this time, the space-time situation is no longer a constraint on communication. Earth shaped like a small village, everyone can easily find friends and relatives of friends at any time. “Take the phone to go the world, can call anytime, anywhere” for more than half a century has been a science fiction