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Summary
Summary
An accessible introduction to the practical aspects of satellite communications. Provides historical background of satellite communications and discusses the wide range of applications throughout the world. Includes descriptions of all the commercial satellite communications systems currently available and their applications in government, broadcasting, and business. Also covers the growing use of satellite communications by developing countries. Contains extensive appendices listing satellite equipment and organizations.
Author Notes
David W. E. Rees is the author of Satellite Communications: The First Quarter Century of Service, published by Wiley.
Reviews 1
Choice Review
Rees's book deals with worldwide communications; it describes their history and the need for them since the invention of the electric telegraph a century and a half ago. In the last 25 years modern systems, employing greatly improved equipment, have covered the world. Built and operated by international cooperatives, these modern systems can supply business and news material, as well as weather and navigational data, and entertainment, to any place on the surface of the earth and even to interplanetary vehicles. The same equipment might be transmitting at the same time newspaper pages for publication, an entertainment program for television, and grocery-chain inventories. The author has spent his working career in communications, the last 20 years with INTELSAT (International Telecommunications Satellite Organization). The book is well written, illustrated, and produced. Rees writes in essentially nontechnical terms, and he can be read with enjoyment by the informed nonspecialist. Not a good textbook, but an excellent reference--especially from the viewpoint of business. For technical information, W.L. Morgan and G.D. Gordon's Communications Satellite Handbook (1989) is preferable. -H. C. Roberts, emeritus, University of Illinois
Table of Contents
| Satellite Communications--The Need |
| International Organiations as Service Providers |
| International Satellite Systems Competitors |
| International Services |
| Business Applications |
| Broadcasting Applications |
| Mobile Applications |
| National Telecommunications via Satellite |
| National Satellite Networks |
| A View to the Future |
| Appendices |
| Glossary |
| Index |
