Tag: starfish prime
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what happened to telstar?
Whatever happened to Telstar? The first communications satellite (COMSAT) to relay television signals launched from Cape Canaveral on July 10, 1962. A video of the launch can be viewed here. Telstar’s Wikipedia entry reveals the COMSAT was a victim of the cold war. “The day before Telstar 1 was launched, the United States had tested…
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the emp threat
“EMP Threat: fact, fiction and response”, an article by Yousaf Butt at The Space Review, examines the threat of a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse. The present writer finds, in recent years, attention to this issue noteworthy. “Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagntic Pulse (EMP) Attack”, published in 2004,…