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O’Connell, James D., 91-95, 99-108
Orbital Solar Observatory (OSO)-1, 133
Orbital Systems Corp., 498-501
Orion Satellite System, 9; and “White Paper on New International Satellite Systems,” 147-53
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Packer, Leo S., 546-53
PanAmSat, 10
Pasadena, CA, 29
Pennsylvania, University of, 388
Pharsalia, NY, 25
Pierce, John R., 2-3, 48, 90; and “Exotic Radio Communications,” 22-30
Potôcnik, Herman, 11
“Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship,” 156, 183
Proxmire, William, and “NASA Report May Overstate the Economic Benefits of Research and Development
Spending,” 430-32
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Radio Corporation of America (RCA), 3, 5, 7; and ACTS, 145-47; and “Administrative and Regulatory Problems
Relating to the Authorization of Commercially Operable Space Communications Systems,” 61-64; and
EOSAT, 172; and “Establishment of Domestic Communications-Satellite Facilities by Non-Governmental
Entities,” 120-32; and Hughes “Commercial Satellite Communication Project,” 31-35; and “Land Remote-
Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984,” 329-44; and meteorological satellites, 157; and Rosen’s Commercial
Communications Satellite, 35-39; and “White Paper on New International Satellite Systems,” 147-53
RAND Corp., 156, 157; and “Earth Information from Space by Remote Sensing,” 282-93; and “Inquiry into the
Feasibility of Weather Reconnaissance from a Satellite Vehicle,” 157, 185-202
Reagan, Ronald, and ACTS, 145-47; and “Basic Agreement Between U.S. Department of Commerce and the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Concerning Operational Meteorological Satellite Systems,”
206-11; and “Convergence of U.S.-Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite Systems,” 165, 221-23;
and “Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984,” 329-44; and “Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of
1992,” 173-75, 352-68; and “The President’s Space Policy and Commercial Space Initiatives to Begin the Next
Century,” 455-60; and “Report of the Government Technical Review Panel on Industry Responses on
Commercialization of the Civil Remote Sensing Systems,” 309-21; and “Resolution of Issues Related to Private
Sector Transfer of Civil Land Observing Satellite Activities,” 306-08; and space commercialization, 498-501,
539-41; and space economics, 392-400; and “Transfer of Civil Meteorological Satellites,” 321-29; and “White
Paper on New International Satellite Systems,” 147-53
Reeves, Robert G., and “Meeting at the U.S. Geological Survey . . . Regarding Remote Sensing and South
America,” 240-44
Reichdelerfer, F.W., and “National Plan for a Common System of Meteorological Observation Satellites,” 204-06
Relay 1, 3, 35
Remote sensing, 155-383; and “Basic Agreement Between U.S. Department of Commerce and the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration Concerning Operational Meteorological Satellite Systems,” 206-11;
and “Civil Operational Remote Sensing,” 294-95; and commercialization of, 175-76; and “Commercial Space
Industry in the Year 2000,” 473-80; and “Convergence of U.S.-Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental
Satellite Systems,” 165, 221-23; and “Crop Forecasting by Satellite,” 272-75; and “Current Status of NASA’s
Natural Resources Program” (1966), 226-37; and “Earth Information from Space by Remote Sensing,” 282-93;
and Earth resource satellites, 167-76; and “Earth Resources Survey Program,” 248-50, 250-52, 253-56; and
“Earth’s Resources to be Studied from Space,” 244-46; and “Foreign Policy Issues Regarding Earth Resource
Surveying by Satellite,” 262-69; and “Inquiry into the Feasibility of Weather Reconnaissance from a Satellite
Vehicle,” 157, 185-202; and “Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992,” 173-75, 352-68; and “Land Remote-
Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984,” 329-44; and Landsat, 133, 168-73; and “Landsat Remote Sensing
Policy,” 345-47; and “Landsat Remote Sensing Strategy,” 372-75; and Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment
(LACIE), 170; and “Management Plan for the Landsat Program,” 347-52; and meteorological satellites,
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