No Heavenly Bodies
By Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren
By Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren
By Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren
By Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren
By Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren
By Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren
Part of Infrastructures
Part of Infrastructures
Part of Infrastructures
Category: Science & Technology | Military History
Category: Science & Technology | Military History
Category: Science & Technology | Military History
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$40.00
Nov 28, 2023 | ISBN 9780262546904
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Nov 28, 2023 | ISBN 9780262376815
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Nov 28, 2023 | ISBN 9780262376822
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Table Of Contents
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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