A very 1999 bit of dot-com / aerospace optimism following the race to build a new satellite communications company before the giants could crush the field with money, patents, and sheer corporate gravity.

It follows Pegasus, a start-up trying to break into the satellite launch/communications world, with all the usual late-century ingredients: venture money, NASA-adjacent romance, private space ambition, heroic nerds, whiteboards, prototypes, and probably several men in fleece vests believing history has personally requested their attendance.

Good for readers interested in the pre-SpaceX commercial space era, tech history, start-up culture before it calcified into TED-talk mulch, and the strange hinge point where aerospace, telecommunications, private capital, and internet-era ambition started braiding themselves together. It looks especially good as a curiosity object now: not “AI will change everything” but “satellites will change everything,” same cathedral, different stained glass.

Paperback. First printing, March 1999. Michael Bessie Book / Perseus Books. Some light general handling wear visible to cover and corners, but appears clean and readable.