Assertion: iridium's satellite | /r/CapableOf | orbit earth
Facets:
value: at 777 kilometers
type: LOCATION
value: completely
type: MANNER
value: in 100 minutes
type: TEMPORAL
value: since the late 1950s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Satellites have been orbiting Earth since the late 1950s when Sputnik 1 was launched.
text: Each satellite completely orbits the earth in 100 minutes traveling at 16,832 miles per hour.
text: Among these are the International Space Station, which orbits at an altitude of around 350 kilometers (218 miles) and the Iridium network, which includes our constellation of 66 active satellites orbiting at 777 kilometers (431 miles) above Earth.
text: Iridium flies still, six groups of eleven 1,412-pound satellites orbiting Earth every 100 minutes, guided from the basement of a featureless two-story office building in Leesburg, Virginia, which houses a bank of Sun computers as long as a football field.