OBITUARY: Space visionary and author Arthur C. Clarke died Mar. 19 at Apollo Hospital in his adopted home country of Sri Lanka, from respiratory complications following a brief illness. He was 90.
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Clarke is credited with proposing the concept of geostationary satellite communications in an October 1945 article for Wireless World magazine. In his concept, three “space stations” in geostationary orbit could relay communications around the globe. Although he wrote that some people might consider...
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