Word: intelsat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late-breaking development would have to go unreported in those copies of the magazine produced in faraway Hong Kong. But no more. Only a week earlier TIME had begun transmitting its pages to the Far East at lightning speed via RCA'S Satcom II and the Comsat Intelsat IV, communications satellites some 20,000 miles above earth. Supplanting a dizzying combination of Hong Kong-bound planes, couriers and other conveyances subject to the failings of man and weather, the system is the first in publishing history equipped to beam four-color finished pages as well as black-and-white...