Dividends+From+Space

Ordway, Frederick I. //Dividends from Space//. New York: Crowell, 1972, C1971. Print.

pg 3- Thanks to the prior development of the communications satellite, the first Moon walk was wilnessed on telelvision by some 600 million, by the largest audience for any event in world history. pg 29-End of page-to the beginning of pg 30 -Satellites give man a remarkable overview of his planet-hour by hour, day by day, year in and year out. -as sensors are improved, satellite data will become of increasing importance to meteorologists, helping them not only to forecast the weather but to develp a profound understanding of atomospheric processes. -monitoring pollution and detecting incipient floods and droughts pg 95-98 -observations of satellites can be duplicated only by dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of individual inputs from surface and airborne studies -same satellites can conduct long-duration measurements, over periods of months or years -unmanned satellites have already added an immeasureable amount of knowledge about our planet and, together with manned vehicles, will continue to do so in the future -since the early Sputniks, Explorers, and Vanguards, spectacular progress with instrumented unmanned satellites has permitted many observational functions to be undertaken from space. -the study showed clearly that there were so many common factors arising from orbital studies of the land, oceans, and atmosphere- such as orientation of the satellite, the resolution of the sensors, and orbital requirements- that careful design could produce "common-use systems" at costs significantly lower than if separate systems were developed for each of the many scientific feilds investigated pg 101 -satellites are also known as often complicated information-gathering system benefiting some "user" -as when a data-collection relay satellite is employed to locate, interrogate, and gather data from numerous information-generating platforms located in many widely separated. -these orbiting vehicles can be so instrumented as to make a variety of studies, measurements, and observations of agricultural and forestry resourcs; hydrology and water resources; geology and mineral resources; oceanography and marine resources ...and meteorology Quote- -National Academy of Sciences has stated: "the potential economic benefits to our society from space systems are enormous...[they] may amount to billions of dollars per year to the public. In some areas it is possible to predict these benefits with accuracy; in other we can estimate within broad but conservative limits." pg 103 pg 138-139 pg. 168-172-173 pg 198 pg 203 pg 205-206