Historical Overview Of The INTELSAT System
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D.K. Sachdev. (1990), JBIS, 43, pp.331-338
Refcode: 1990.43.331
Abstract:
While the fundamental principles of natural satellites circling the planets have been well understood for hundreds of years, the first serious proposal to harness this natural phenomenon for global communication was made in 1945 by Arthur C. Clarke, who postulated geostationary satellites with a direct radio and optical visibility over one third of the Earth’s surface. The analysis was at once simple and far reaching, at a time when narrow band High Frequency (HF) radio was the only medium for transoceanic communication and live television long spans of the oceans was still a distant objective without a tangible solution in sight.
