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Space Communications And The Law: Adequate International Control After 1963?, Samuel D. Estep, Amalya L. Kearse
Space Communications And The Law: Adequate International Control After 1963?, Samuel D. Estep, Amalya L. Kearse
Michigan Law Review
During the current year, a space event of legal and technological significance will occur. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (A.T. & T.), using the launching facilities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will launch its first satellite for research in the area of commercial communications.† The A.T. & T. sphere will be the first tested by a private, commercial organization specifically for business purposes- to implement a plan eventually to provide increased and improved telecommunications on a grand scale at a lower cost. The satellite will relay television signals from the United States to England, Germany, and …