No heavenly bodies : a history of satellite communications infrastructure

No heavenly bodies : a history of satellite communications infrastructure / Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren.

"A history of Cold War-era satellite communication largely from U.S. and Soviet perspectives"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Evans, Christine E. (Author), Lundgren, Lars, 1973- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2023]
Series:	Infrastructures series.
Subjects:	1900-1999 Artificial satellites in telecommunication > History > 20th century. Artificial satellites in telecommunication History
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Table of Contents:

"Towers in the sky" : satellites and emerging global media infrastructures
Promising liveness : contested geography and temporality in live satellite broadcasting events
Fragmented from the beginning : the entangled origins of Intelsat and Intersputnik
"Space begins on Earth" : selling, building, and representing satellite Earth stations
Hotlines, handshakes, and satellite Earth stations : infrastructural globalization and Cold War high politics.