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Live via satellite: at first, the idea of communications satellites went over like a lead balloon. (Trailing Edge).

Publication: Technology Review (Cambridge, Mass.)
Publication Date: 01-JUL-03 		Format: Online - approximately 402 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
On August 12, 1960, NASA and Bell Laboratories sent a 30-meter aluminum-coated Mylar balloon into space--launching the satellite communications industry. The project would never have gotten off the ground if it weren't for the persistence of John R. Pierce, a visionary Bell Labs engineer who moonlighted as a science fiction writer.

While Pierce was an electrical engineering student at...

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