TY  - BOOK
AU  - BUTRICA Andrew J (ed.)
TI  - Beyond the ionosphere: fifty years of satetlite communication
SN  - 0160490545 (hbk.):
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Washington DC
PB  - NASA
KW  - SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
KW  - TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
N2  - A collection of papers providing a world wide perspective on the evolution of satellite communication systems. The coverage goes from the early concepts (including references to Arthur C Clarke's 1945 paper on Extra terrestrial relays which proposed geostationary satellites) to the Iridium system of the late 1990's
ER  -