No Heavenly Bodies
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 d...
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| author | Evans, Christine E. Lundgren, Lars |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1467152024-10-25T13:18:07Z No Heavenly Bodies Evans, Christine E. Lundgren, Lars satellite communications infrastructure media history global media space infrastructures Soviet Union INTELSAT Intersputnik thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology 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. 2024-10-25T13:18:06Z 2024-10-25T13:18:06Z 2023 book ONIX_20241025_9780262376815_93 9780262376815 9780262546904 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/146715 eng Infrastructures image/jpeg n/a https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13771.001.0001 The MIT Press The MIT Press 10.7551/mitpress/13771.001.0001 10.7551/mitpress/13771.001.0001 ae0cf962-f685-4933-93d1-916defa5123d 9780262376815 9780262546904 The MIT Press 256 Cambridge open access |
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