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- 9780262546904
- Book Title
- No Heavenly Bodies : a History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure
- Book Series
- Infrastructures Ser.
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
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- Genre
- Technology & Engineering
- Topic
- Social Aspects, History
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- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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The compelling and little-known history of satellite communications that reveals the Soviet and Eastern European roles in the development of its infrastructure. Taking its title from Hannah Arendt's description of artificial earth satellites, No Heavenly Bodies explores the history of the first two decades of satellite communications. Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren trace how satellite communications infrastructure was imagined, negotiated, and built across the Earth's surface, including across the Iron Curtain. While the United States' and European countries' roles in satellite communications are well documented, Evans and Lundgren delve deep into the role the Soviet Union and other socialist countries played in shaping the infrastructure of satellite communications technology in its first two decades. Departing from the Cold War binary and the competitive framework that has animated much of space historiography and telecommunications history, No Heavenly Bodies focuses instead on interaction, cooperation, and mutual influence across the Cold War divide. Evans and Lundgren describe the expansion of satellite communications networks as a process of negotiation and interaction, rather than a simple contest of technological and geopolitical prowess. In so doing, they make visible the significant overlaps, shared imaginaries, points of contact and exchange, and negotiated settlements that determined the shape of satellite communications in its formative decades.
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MIT Press
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0262546906
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9780262546904
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Book Title
No Heavenly Bodies : a History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Social Aspects, History
Genre
Technology & Engineering
Book Series
Infrastructures Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
14.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
5.9 in
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2023-007495
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Tk5104.E83 2023
Table of Content
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 "Towers in the Sky": Satellites and Emerging Global Media Infrastructures 19 2 Promising Liveness: Contested Geography and Temporality in Live Satellite Broadcasting Events 45 3 Fragmented from the Beginning: The Entangled Origins of Intelsat and Intersputnik 69 4 "Space Begins on Earth": Selling, Building, and Representing Satellite Earth Stations 91 5 Hotlines, Handshakes, and Satellite Earth Stations: Infrastructural Globalization and Cold War High Politics 125 Epilogue 143 Terms and Abbreviations 159 Notes 163 Bibliography 207 Illustrations 225 Index 227
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