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This infographic comes courtesy of internet company, Broadband Wherever. Their services are based in Europe but this piece of marketing reaches a global audience. It is often thought of the early Space Age as being dominated by the United States and Soviet Union, but you can see other participating nations quickly rushing their own satellites into orbit: Canada, Italy, Australia, Japan, India and more.

In two decades, satellites changed from simple transmitters and receivers to sophisticated machines that carried television signals and science instruments:

I’m not sure why the video game Asteroids is used in the background, but I like it. We don’t have any Earth-defense-shooting-detection-devices in space, do we?

~ by Fionnlagh on March 22, 2014.

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Tags: Asteroids, Black Knight -- The Unidentified Satellite Orbiting Earth, History of Satellites 1950 - 1978, The Fast Evolution of Early Space Age Satellites [infographic]