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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, Departing from the Cold War binary and the competitive framework that has animated much of space historiography and telecommunications history, 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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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 "Towers in the Sky": Satellites and Emerging Global Media Infrastructures 19
2 Promising Liveness: Contested Geography and Temporality in Live Satellite Broadcasting Events 45
3 Fragmented from the Beginning: The Entangled Origins of Intelsat and Intersputnik 69
4 "Space Begins on Earth": Selling, Building, and Representing Satellite Earth Stations 91
5 Hotlines, Handshakes, and Satellite Earth Stations: Infrastructural Globalization and Cold War High Politics 125
Epilogue 143
Terms and Abbreviations 159
Notes 163
Bibliography 207
Illustrations 225
Index 227
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Christine Evans is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her first book,
Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television, received an Honorable Mention for the 2017 USC Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies.
Lars Lundgren is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University. His work has been published in
Media History,
European Journal of Cultural Studies, and
International Journal of Communication.
