NAPLES, Italy — Sirius XM Radio will need to install more than 600 new ground terminals around North America as it prepares for the retirement of three satellites in highly elliptical orbit and their replacement by two satellites in conventional geostationary orbit, the man who designed the elliptical-orbit system said Oct. 4.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris Bureau Chief for SpaceNews.