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vi CONTENTS

4 Launch Vehicles and Their Role 83
Eric J. Novotny

III. HISTORY AND POLITICS

5 The Geopolitics and Institutions of Satellite Communications 111
Robert J. Oslund

6 Regulating Communications Satellites on the Way
to Globalism 147
Robert J. Oslund

7 Dual Use Challenge and Response: Commercial
and Military Uses of Space Communications 175
Robert J. Oslund

IV. BUSINESS, MEDIA, AND ECONOMICS

8 Satellites, Internet, and IP Networking 199
Indu B. Singh and Robinder N. Sachdev

9 Benefits of Satellite Telecommunications 219
Dr. Norman C. Lerner

10 The World of Satellite TV: News, the Olympics,
and Global Entertainment 243
Peter Marshall and Robert N. Wold

V. IMPACT ON SOCIETY

11 New Opportunities and Threats for 21st-century Life 265
Joseph N. Pelton

12 Satellites and the Promise of Teleeducation and Telehealth 281
Joseph N. Pelton

13 Satellites and Global Diversity 299
Hamid Mowlana