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Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS), 10
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), 158, 215-16
Delta launch vehicle, 35
Denver Research Institute, 390; and “Mission Oriented R&D and the Advancement of Technology,” 432-45
Deutch, John , 370
Dingman, J.E., 56-57, 58-59
Dryden, Hugh L., 47, 58-60, 88, 203-04; and “Basic Agreement Between U.S. Department of Commerce and the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Concerning Operational Meteorological Satellite Systems,”
206-11
Dunn, Robert, and “NASA Policy to Enhance Commercial Investment in Space,” 488-98
Dutton, Frederick G., 71-72
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Early Bird, 5
Earth Observation Satellite Company (EOSAT), 172, 344-45; and “Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992,”
173-75, 352-68; and “Landsat Remote Sensing Policy,” 345-47
Earth Resources Observation Satellite (EROS) Program, 244-48, 256-57, 275-76
Earth Observing Satellite (EOS), 163, 396
Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS), see Landsat
Echo 1, 2-3, 22, 30, 50
Echo 2, 3
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 2, 4, 39, 41-42, 86, 158
Elliott, Linda, and “Mission Oriented R&D and the Advancement of Technology,” 432-45
Energy, Department of (DOE), 385
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), 165-67; and Earth
resource satellites, 167-76, 224-25
European Posts and Telecommunications, Committee on, 6
European Space Agency (ESA), 165-66; and Earth resource satellites, 167-76, 224-25
European Telecommunications Satellite Organization (EUTELSAT), 10
Evans, Llewellyn, 498-501
Evans, Michael K., and “The Economic Impact of NASA R&D Spending,” 414-26
Exon, James, 164, 213, 215-16
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Faget, Maxime A., 498-501
Fairchild Aviation Corp., 7, 498-501; and “Establishment of Domestic Communications-Satellite Facilities by
Non-Governmental Entities,” 120-32
Farley, Philip, 85-89
Faucett, Jack G., 388, 401-402
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 9, 10; and “Administrative and Regulatory Problems Relating to
the Authorization of Commercially Operable Space Communications Systems,” 61-64; and Communications
Satellite Act of 1962, 5, 61, 63, 76-85; and “Establishment of Domestic Communications-Satellite Facilities by
Non-Governmental Entities,” 120-32; and “FCC Relation to Space Communication,” 42-45; and “Federal
Research and Development for Satellite Communications,” 135-45; and “A Global System of Satellite
Communications,” 99-108; and legislation about, 67-72; and National Aeronautics and Space Act, 72-85, 392;
and National Aeronautics and Space Council, 65-67, 76-85; and “National Space Policy” (1996), 463-73; and
Newton Minnow, 60-61, 76; and “Policy Concerning U.S. Assistance in the Development of Foreign
Communications Satellite Capabilities,” 91-95; and “Report of the United States Delegation . . . on Definitive
Arrangements for the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium,” 108-20; and Soviet Union,
85-89; and State Department, 85-89, 91-95; and “Transfer of U.S. Communications Satellite Technology,”
96-99; and “U.S. Assistance in the Early Establishment of Communications Satellite Service,” 95-96; and “White
Paper on New International Satellite Systems,” 147-53
Federal Express Corp., 498-501
Felkel, Ed, 33
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