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February 23, 1999: The launch of the Stellenbosch University Satellite (SUNSAT) added South Africa to the list of…

July 20, 1969: The first landing on the moon by Apollo 11 was broadcast “”live via satellite”” to…

March 28, 2001: SES Global announced the acquisition of GE Americom from General Electric for US$5 billion in…

March 17, 2000: US President Bill Clinton signed into law the Open-market Reorganization for the Betterment of International…

November 3, 1957: The Soviet Union startled the world by launching a second satellite less than one month…

October 29, 1999: In Penang, Malaysia, the INTELSAT Assembly of Parties, including representatives of all 143 member governments,…

April 13,1974: Western Union and NASA joined forces to launch Westar 1, the first commercially-launched American domestic communications…

The seminal event of the 1970’s was the””Open Skies”” ruling by the US Federal Communications Commission, which favored…

August 12, 1960: NASA launched, Echo 1, developed by a Bell Labs team led by Dr. John Pierce.…

August 19, 1964: A Hughes Aircraft team led by Dr. Harold Rosen launched Syncom 3, the first geostationary…

June 7-July 17, 1971: The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) convened the World Administrative Radio Conference for Space Telecommunications…

November 11, 1982: NASA’s Space Shuttle flew its first mission to deliver communications satellites into low Earth orbit.…