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satellite networks  

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  • In an article called “Extra-Terrestrial Relays,” which appeared in the October 1945 issue of the magazine Wireless World, journalist and science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke theorized that three satellites orbiting the globe at equal distances from each other could provide communication between almost any two points in the world. Nearly 20 years later, in July 1962, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) launched Telstar, the first real-time telecommunications satellite. [Source: Encyclopedia of New Media; Satellite Networks]

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