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This 11 page report discusses the gaps between the theories related to satellite communications and their applications as compared with the actual practice being utilized or expanded upon. An ever-increasing number of applications of international communications satellite technology have developed in the past forty years but many of those applications are still variations on the communications theme. This paper both discusses satellites and their capabilities but also examines the number of potential satellite applications that have received little attention or development. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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1957, by the Soviet Union. According to Campanella (1993), its test payload of a radio beacon and a thermometer demonstrated the fundamental theory and feasibility of launching a satellite
into orbit. The first satellite belonging to the United States, Explorer I, was launched on January 31, 1958. Explorer returned scientific information that was instrumental in the discovery of
certain radiation phenomena. Beginning in the late 1950s, satellites started being used for long-distance telephone communications. Echo, the first communications satellite (launched by the United States in 1960), was
an instrumented inflatable aluminized plastic balloon that was 100 feet in diameter. Its purpose was to passively reflected radio signals back to earth. Forty years later, it seems almost
charming in its simplistic point-to-point functionality. According to Covault (1996), half the satellites launched this decade weigh over 15,000 pounds and are able to perform a broad array of
technological tasks. Most of the first communications satellites were designed to operate in a passive mode. Instead of actively transmitting radio signals, they served merely to reflect signals that were
beamed up to them by transmitting stations on the ground. Signals were reflected in all directions, so they could be picked up by receiving stations around the world.There are five
primary types into which satellites can be divided, according to Curtis (1989), into five principal types: research, communications, meteorological, navigational, and applicational. As already noted, the passive mode of
operation quickly gave way to the active or repeater mode, in which the complex electronic equipment aboard the satellite receives a signal from the earth, amplifies it, and transmits it
to another station. Communications satellites provide a worldwide linkup of radio, telephone, and television. Telstar and Relay were the first active communications satellites, but they were not in geosynchronous orbits,
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