NOTAS: | This book published by Satnews Publishers is the first book of its kind to cover the entire history of the commercial satellite communications industry from its visionary beginnings to the challenges that the industry is facing in the present millennium. The book traces the breakthroughs in scientific thought from Galileo to Newton that made possible the conception of the geostationary communication satellite propounded by Arthur C. Clarke in 1945. It covers all the major events that shaped the industry from Sputnik, to the formation of Intelsat and the road to commercialization and privatization of the industry that continues to the present. |