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Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries, and Cultures

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Down to Earth presents the first comprehensive overview of the geopolitical maneuvers, financial investments, technological innovations, and ideological struggles that take place behind the scenes of the satellite industry. Satellite projects that have not received extensive coverage—microsatellites in China, WorldSpace in South Africa, SiriusXM, the failures of USA 193 and Cosmos 954, and Iridium—are explored. This collection takes readers on a voyage through a truly global industry, from the sites where satellites are launched to the corporate clean rooms where they are designed, and along the orbits and paths that satellites traverse. Combining a practical introduction to the mechanics of ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
326
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
New Directions in International Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813552743
SKU
V9780813552743
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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About Parks & Schwoch
LISA PARKS is a professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit:Satellites and the Televisual and coeditor of Planet TV: A Global Television Reader.  JAMES SCHWOCH is the senior associate dean for the School of Communication at Northwestern University in Qatar, and a professor at Northwestern ... Read more

Reviews for Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries, and Cultures
"Useful for readers interested in the evolution of media-oriented satellites and the cultures they serve. Recommended."
Choice
"Grounded in fact and garnished with theory, this volume both excites and builds on a renewed appreciation for satellites…a treasurehouse of materials for people who want to figure out the technical colonization of the air!"
John Durham Peters
author ... Read more

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