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    Satellite Telecommunications Network and Telecommunications Concepts 360 September 11‚ 2005 Table of Contents • Introduction • Satellite Communications History • Sputnik Changed Everything • America ’s Response • Future Trends in Satellite Communications • GEO vs. LEO • Bent-Pipe Satellite Relay vs. the Switch in the Sky • Companies Involved in Satellite Communications • Regulatory Issues in Satellite Communications • Global implications for the

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    When World War 2 ended a new war surfaced: it was the Cold War. It began in the summer of 1945 at the Potsdam Conference in occupied Germany. The conference was attended by the Soviet leaders‚ the British leaders and American leaders. President Truman was also there but left the conference feeling that Soviet leader‚ John Stalin‚ was planning to have world domination. This was the beginning of worldwide rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States. Throughout this 46 year struggle of

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    When Americans think of the term “space exploration” they typically associate it with “the race for space” and recall a time when the nation was consumed by the thought of rockets and beating the Soviet Union to the final frontier. While the period of time‚ coined as “The Space Race‚” has since passed‚ space exploration continues to impact people around the world. Many Americans fail to understand that the benefits of space exploration extend far beyond the people involved with counting down the

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    What Is The Space Race

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    Cold War in about 1957 and the Cold War was started in 1947 and lasted o 1991. Who could get to the moon fastest? Who could build better materials than the other team? Who has more world power? So the U.S.S.R started to build the first satellite‚ Sputnik and the U.S.A. Built Explorer 1. The time known as the space race had to do with technological advancement in history between the U.S.S.R and the U.S.A. The most important parts in the timeline for space exploration. There were many spin off products

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    the year that the very first rocket ship was launched with a radio transmitter. It was the year that started a competitive atmosphere in the scientific field of work. It was the year that opened many possibilities to mankind. It was the year that Sputnik was launched. It was the year that launched the modern world into motion with satellites‚ space stations‚ and wireless connections around the world. The passages presented are introductory passages to a larger excerpt that remains unpresented. Both

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    of the USA. The start of the space race saw the Soviet Union take a giant head start over the United States of America with the successful launch of Sputnik‚ a Soviet Union satellite launched on October 4th‚ 1957. The Soviets also launched Sputnik 2‚ which contained a live passenger‚ but the passenger died due to the overheating of the cabin and Sputnik 2’s batteries died after only 6 days in space. The US attempted to catch up to the Soviet’s progress with the attempted launch on December 6‚ 1957

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    Since the beginning when the United States formed as a country‚ citizens found that advancing technology to help not only the present‚ but the future as well could help America grow‚ and eventually dominate over other countries. While technology was very limited during the early to mid 20th century compared to now‚ the World War II era up through the Vietnam War brought a whole new aspect of technology. During these times‚ electricity has been popular for a while now‚ which allowed for a great deal

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    The Space Race and American-Russian Relations The Cold War was an influential time period for Americans in the later half of the 20th century. This war did not involve physical warfare; no fighting on the battlefield ever took place. Rather‚ it was a war based on intimidation and fear; it was an arms race between the two global superpowers of the democratic United States of America and the communist Soviet Union. This struggle to be the ‘biggest and best ’ was one that lasted from the few

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    Debra Stadelman Mr. Willard Science and tech. 4th quarter project SPACE EXPLORATION Space exploration has been very important in human life. The first object in space was Sputnik 1 and it was launched by the U.S.S.R.in 1957. When sputnik was first launched it seemed as if it were to start a new war against the United States. But as the studied it more they realized that it was just a satellite circling the globe. That it meant us no harm. In 1958‚ launched by

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    dispatching the Sputnik. This drastically affected the training gave in the American culture as delineated in . U.S started underscoring science that is they disregarded General training. This can demonstrate that U.S was so thought about the chilly war‚ about the U.S‚ about the apprehension it made that they accentuated Science and felt that they needed to counter with an enormous power. It changed the household strategy since science was more pivotal as an aftereffect of Sputnik. The space race

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