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Down to Earth : satellite technologies, industries, and cultures /

Though satellites are now used by a wide array of entertainment, communications, and information technologies, from radio stations to GPS devices, the business of making, launching, and maintaining satellites is still shrouded in mystery. Down to Earth presents the first comprehensive overview of th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Parks, Lisa, Schwoch, James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2012.
Colección:New directions in international studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 |a Though satellites are now used by a wide array of entertainment, communications, and information technologies, from radio stations to GPS devices, the business of making, launching, and maintaining satellites is still shrouded in mystery. Down to Earth presents the first comprehensive overview of the geopolitical maneuvers, financial investments, scientific innovations, and ideological struggles that take place behind the scenes of this fascinating industry. 
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505 0 |a Introduction / Lisa Parks and James Schwoch -- I. Concepts and cartographies : The invention of air space, outer space, and cyberspace / James Hay ; Dethroning the view from above: toward a critical social analysis of satellite ocularcentrism / Barney Warf ; The geostationary orbit: a critical legal geography of space's most valuable real estate / Christy Collis ; "Freedom to communicate": ideology and the global in the iridium satellite venture / Martin Collins ; The NAVSTAR global positioning system: from military tool to global utility / Rick W. Sturdevant ; Satellites, oil, and footprints: EUTELSAT, KAZSAT, and post-communist territories in central Asia / Lisa Parks -- II: Satellite mediascapes : From satellite to screen: how Arab TV is shaped in space / Naomi Sakr ; Beyond the terrestrial? Networked distribution, multimodal media, and the place of the local in satellite radio / Alexander Russo and Bill Kirkpatrick ; Crossing borders: the introduction and legislation of satellite radio in Canada / Brian O'Neill and Michael Murphy ; Worldspace satellite radio and the South African footprint / Ben Aslinger ; Content vs. delivery: the global battle for German satellite television / Paul Torre -- III: Orbital matters : When satellites fall: on the trails of Cosmos 954 and USA 193 / Lisa Parks ; AFP-731 or the other night sky: an allegory / Trevor Paglen ; Microsatellites: a bellwether of Chinese aerospace progress? / Andrew S. Erickson ; Disjecta membra, the Kármán line, and the 38th parallel / James Schwoch. 
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