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Satellite: Iridium 76
Date: Wednesday, 22 October, 2008
Location: Rio de Janeiro (Museu de Astronomia e Ciencias Afins)
Time: 08:01 PM
Magnitude: -7

Iridium Satellite is a privately held global satellite voice and data communications company, based in Maryland, US. Iridium's constellation consists of 66 low-earth orbiting, providing services to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), as well as other civil and government agencies around the world.

For those of you interested in satellites flare sighting, I suggest a close look on Chris Peat's Heavens-Above website: [link]
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It was originally planed to contain 77 satellites in the constellation (Seeing that Iridium's Atomic number is 77).

The U.S. Military used Iridium Phones to coordinate humanitarian missions when i was deployed to Africa.