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...good unit. The high tab is for high tech. An earth station pulls in a signal from one of the twelve U.S. and Canadian communication satellites beaming down from a fixed position 22,300 miles above the equator-what vid-whizzes call a "geosynchronous orbit." The signal is focused into an amplifier, which magnifies it up to 100,000 times before it is converted to a conventional TV signal...
...Force replies that both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have virtually eliminated the problem of bias. Among other things, the Soviets can launch satellites over the pole into orbit, measure the geodetic forces, and program their missiles accordingly. That is exactly what the U.S. does to complement its own east-to-west ICBM test shots from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. Furthermore, says Harold Brown, Defense Secretary in the Carter Administration and now visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington: "Since Soviet warheads are considerably more...
...imagine. A college dropout and self-taught engineer, he met David Hannah Jr., a wealthy Houston real estate developer, in 1979 after making a movie on space exploration. Hudson convinced Hannah that he could build a low-cost rocket using off-the-shelf hardware, and send satellites into orbit for bargain-basement prices...
Until now, NASA has had a virtual monopoly on space shots for private industry. But the space agency charges approximately $28 million to put satellites into the geosynchronous, or stationary, orbit used for telecommunications signals. Moreover, NASA rockets are just about booked solid for the next five years. The first 68 flights of the space shuttle, which is also designed to launch satellites, have been reserved as well...
Hudson plans to undercut NASA and open up the market by charging a maximum of $5 million to launch a low-orbit satellite that could be used to search for oil, gas or mineral deposits. For stationary communications orbits 22,300 miles up, Space Services Inc. will charge an estimated $15 million...