Kevin Fetter wrote: > > The clerke belt, or clark belt is the area of space above the earth's > equator where the geo sats are placed. ... Actually, it's the other likely spelling - after Arthur C. Clarke who first proposed the idea of using geostationary satellites for communications relays in the February 1945 issue of Wireless World magazine. No, I haven't read this letter though it would be quite fun to find it in a library somewhere - but refer you to his book "How the World Was One" amongst other references on the subject. Same chap as what wrote 2001 with Stanley Kubrick plus a lot of other stuff. Ed. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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