عنوان

The rise and fall of COMSAT :

شابک

1137396911

شابک

9781137396914

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

The rise and fall of COMSAT :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

technology, business and government in satellite communications /

نام نخستين پديدآور

David J. Whalen

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Palgrave Macmillan,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2014

نام خاص و کميت اثر

viii, 278 p. :

ساير جزييات

ill. ;

ابعاد

23 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-270) and index

متن يادداشت

Satellite communications grosses over $100 billion annually and is heading toward $200 billion. COMSAT started all of this in 1963 when it was organized in compliance with the Communications Satellite Act of 1962. COMSAT was responsible for choosing geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO), forming Intelsat, and generally promoting the technological change that saw satellite power increase from the 40 watts of Early Bird (Intelsat I) to the almost 10 kilowatts of Intelsat IX; Earth station antennas were reduced from 30 meters to 1 meter. The business of satellite communications was expanded to mobile communications and, less successfully for COMSAT, domestic telecommunications (DOMSATs) and television broadcasting. After pioneering this technology and growing the market, COMSAT fell prey to changes in government policy (the Intelsat Definitive Arrangements, Reagan's Separate Systems, and ORBIT Act) and to its own lack of entrepreneurial talent. After its purchase by Lockheed Martin in 2000, COMSAT was closed down in 2001. The author explores the factors which contributed to this rise and fall of COMSAT. Book jacket

موضوع مستند نشده

Communications Satellite Corporation-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Satellite earth stations industry-- United States-- History

شماره

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Whalen, David J

تاريخ عمليات

20140805044334.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y