Actinotus forsythii, the pink flannel flower or ridge flannel flower is a plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the east coast of Australia, and found in New South Wales and Victoria
Intelsat I, World's First Commercial Geosynchronous Communications Satellite.
Hughes Aircraft Company test engineer in a clean room suit inspecting a recent arrival at Cape Kennedy, the Intelsat I ("Early Bird") communications satellite along with its associated test equipment. It was launched into orbit on April 6, 1965 and went into service June 28. Intelsat's orbital design can trace it's roots back to a concept originating many years earlier by one of the founders of astronautics, Slovenian engineer Herman Potočnik. In his 1928 book "Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums - der Raketen-Motor" he expands on an idea originally proposed by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Using Kepler's third law of planetary motion, he proposed that if a manned space station's circular equatorial orbit is high enough (35,786 km) it's period would be slow enough to match that of the earth's and the satellite's ground point would remain stationary making it particularly useful for continuous radio communications with the astronauts on board. In a 1945 Wireless World article, Arthur C. Clarke expanded upon this idea and proposed using satellites for mass broadcasting and as telecommunications relays. In 1959, inspired by Sputnik 1, Hughes Aircraft engineer Harold Rosen designed the world's first geostationary satellite called Syncom, which evolved into the design for Intelsat I.
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