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...spot in the sky. But they also have two strikes against them before they take to space. They must be kept as light as possible because of the great rocket effort needed to place them on their high orbits, and in spite of their lightness, they must transmit a radio signal strong enough to be heard at that great distance. Perhaps more serious is the problem of keeping them on station above a selected point on the earth's equator. They are continually pushed out of position by irregularities in the earth's gravitation, by the influence...
...Facsimile transmission not only promises to eliminate the relative slowness of jet-carried airmail, it conjures up visions of home-printed newspapers. With a satellite network to gather information for the editors and the same network to transmit that information to subscribers, an improved version of office copying machines may soon be hooked to home TV sets to make high-quality reproduction of text and pictures on rolls of reusable plastic...
...have been told by the State Department that my major duty will be 'to frequent French intellectuals, to consult with them on common problems of the intellectual community of the free world, and to transmit to them something of the major trends in American civilization...
Early Bird gets its electric power from 6,000 solar cells; its orbit is so far from the earth that the earth's shadow seldom forces it to depend on storage batteries. Its electronic equipment will pick up radio-telephone and TV signals from earth, amplify them and transmit them back to earth far beyond their normal range...
...either case, the 85-lb. Early Bird is destined for a high orbit (22,300 miles above the Atlantic at the equator), will eventually transmit TV broadcasts and telephone messages between Europe and North America. Within 40 hours after launch, it is scheduled to be in position, orbiting at the same speed as the earth's rotation and thus, in effect, providing a stationary relay station in space. After several days of testing, it will beam a series of international telecasts. Then its 240 two-way voice channels will be switched on for telephone calls-Comsat's first...