Thread: NASA STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF ARTHUR C. CLARKE
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Default NASA STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF ARTHUR C. CLARKE
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What? No mention of his direct responsibility for much of modern space
activity (his postulation of what is known widely as the Clarke Belt, a zone
of space wherein objects fall at exactly the same rate as they orbit the
Earth, making geostationary/geosynchronous satellites, and, therefor, global
satellite communications possible).

Quite likely because NASA had so little to do with geosynch satellites
which were first proven by Hal Rosen and Tom Hudspeth of Hughes
Aircraft Company with the SYNCOM satellite.

I forgot, where exactly is the Hughes launch center?

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