Wow, they could complete their objective more quickly by taking a billion dollars in small denomination bills and putting it into a pile and lighting it on fire :-) Only slightly more seriously, it would be very impressive if they could pull it off, but having seen the deployment of Iridium (66), GPS (32), GLONASS (24) , and Galileo (30) it doesn't seem like we have a non-nation state that is up to the challenge of putting 600(!) satellites into orbit all at once.<p>If we assume the reporters got random factoids mixed up, 600 satellites? in 20 "planes" ? (lets assume they are somehow station keeping in the same orbital plane so 30 satellites each trying to stay 12 degrees away from the next satellite in the same plane, while trying to avoid the other 19 planes? One gets destroyed by space junk and you practically guarantee another 29 join it over the next 120 minutes or so? That is going to be quite the dance.<p>And what spectrum are they using for uplink/downlink? .5 Thz? Something they can get a license for all over the world presumably. That alone cost a billion dollars for Iridium.<p>I just can't imagine a scenario where this even works. Perhaps if they start with the old TeleDesic design or something.