Communications satellites:global change agents

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: NetLibrary, Inc.
Group Author: Oslund Robert J.; Marshall Peter; (Peter P.); Pelton Joseph N.
Published: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Publisher Address: Mahwah, N.J.
Publication Dates: 2004.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Telecommunications
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Online Access: http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=119242
Carrier Form: xix, 387 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 1410611116 (electronic bk.)
9781410611116 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: TN927
CLC: TN927
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Satellites as worldwide change agents / Joseph N. Pelton -- Satellite technology : the evolution of satellite systems and fixed satellite services / Louis Ippolito and Joseph N. Pelton -- The "new" satellite services : broadcast, mobile, and broadband Internet satellite systems / D.K. Sachdev and Dan Swearingen -- Launch vehicles and their role / Eric J. Novotny -- The geopolitics and institutions of satellite communications ; Regulating communications satellite on the way to globalism ; Dual use challenge and response : commercial and military use of space communications / Robert J. Oslund.