"SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN, Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age"
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new transatlantic service between 1970 and 1975. He writes, "It is concluded here also. . . there probably exists a potentially much larger market..."
There is a July 25, 1958 memo from E. I. Green to Mervin Kelly evaluating Pierce's proposals concludes, "In summary, the proposed system would require intensive R&D on a host of problems. . . considering other demands of Bells Systems... it would be my recommendation that we de not attempt to undertake satellite communications as a Bell System development." Presumably, it was this memo that led to his "cease and desist order" (page 185).
A letter trom John Pierce to Chaplin Cutler of October 17, 1958, gives Pierce's views of the meeting of the Advanced Research Project Agency he had attended on October 15 and 16 (page 185). Pierce was aware from the beginning of the ideas being considered by the military for commumcation satellites. At the ARPA meeting he was acting as a consultant to what was an ad hoc panel on 24-hour satellites. ARPA's views would change considerably. Pierce reported the view then: "It is possible that a spinning satellite with non-directive antennas will be launched early in 1960 and a satellite with an attitude stabilized platform in 1962" (Box 840902, AT&T archives).
A memorandum for the Record from John Pierce, Rudy Kompfuer, and Chaplin Cutler on Research Toward Satellite Communication, Research toward Satellite Communication. Dated January 6, 1959, the memo describes a research program directed in general at acquiring the basic knowledge for satellite communication by any means and specifically at aspects of passive Echo-type satellites. A fuller version of the research memo was written on January 9, 1959 (page 185) (AT&T archives).
In a letter to William McRae, vice president of AT&T, of January 7, 1959. Pierce outlines his proposed research program for satellite communication (AT&T archives).
A memo of 16 June 1959 describes a meeting between BTL, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Naval Research Laboratory, during which William O'Sullivan provided some technical details on the aluminized
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