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BEYOND
THE IONOSPHERE
FIFTYYEARS OF SATELLITE COMMUNICATION
EDITED BY
ANDREW BUTRICAJ. BEYOND THE
IONOSPHERE
FIFTYYEARS OF SATELLITE
COMMUNICATION
ofArthur C.October 1995 marked the fiftieth anniversary
World the useClarke's famous article in Wireless proposing
orbit for worldwideof satellites inplaced geosynchronous
The for itcommunications article proved prophetic,relay.
era of telecommunications.heralded the modern
several series of satellitesin the 1960s,Beginning early
into Earth's trans-were launched orbit; collectively they
twentieth aformed the latter century, creating global
instantaneous communications.ofvillage
limits radiothe had defined the ofionospherePreviously,
communication: thetoday, by going beyond ionosphere,
Thisbroadband telecommunication has entered a new age.
ionos-book describes the first to theattempts go beyond
Moon as aboth the earliest uses of thephere, including
the mas-natural satellite and Echo,passive, relay Project
Earth stations bouncedsive inflated satellite off which
communications viaradio as well assignals, contemporary
moons in orbit about the Earth. Itartificialactive-repeater
and satellite communica-both American foreignanalyzes
several satellitethe histories oftions,
of and the con-the roles agencies,companies, government
laboratories.tribution of research
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an international held in D.C.,symposium Washington,ing
1945 arti-the time of the fiftieth of Clarke'sat anniversary
fromContributions from historians and other scholarscle.
of onethe world a analysispresent stimulatingthroughout
workof the most at todayimportant global technologies
and how it and evolved.originated
a and illumi-Andrew Butrica has edited comprehensiveJ.
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to understand thevital for seeking historyreading anyone
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of sci-received his Ph.D. in theAndrew Butrica historyJ.
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ISBN 0-16-049054-5 To the dreamers and doers satellite communications:pioneering of
Arthur C. who envisioned the orbitand aClarke, geosynchronous global
satellite television Robinson the visionsnetwork; Pierce,John for transforming of
his science into a science Col. H. andEcho;fiction fact, John DeWitt,Jr.,
Zoltdn the communications links;Bay,for achieving first successful space
and H. who turned theMoon intoTrexler,James humanity'sfirst
communications satellite.
