The Talking Satellite – A Reminiscence of Project Score

D. Davis (1999), JBIS, 52, 239-258

Refcode: 1999.52.239

Abstract:
An authentic eye-witness account, from one ultimately involved, of the history and development of PROJECT SCORE which orbited the Earth in 1958, transmitting a recorded message from President Eisenhower and which may thus claim to be the world’s first communications satellite.