History  

     Sputnik was a satellite launched by the Soviet Union in october 1957^[1]. The idea of putting an unmanned aircraft into sapce was thought up by Arthur C. Clarke communication purposes only. Although this was made clear, people still though that it was a weapon that was going to be used to bomb the americans during the Cold War. People got so scared that they had to be reassured by the New York Times magazine that the satellite wasnt big enough to hold a nuke to drop on unsuspecting individuals^[2].

Great Worries

This soviet act also posed another problem and even greater worry. The US was no longer sure that the Soviet Union was technologically inferior to them^[3]. This brought up great worry that the Soviet Union might win the Cold War.

In the Future

This inspirerd a wave of imagination through companies that they could build their own satellite. A company called American Telephone & Telegraph (now known as AT&T) constructed a satellite called Telstar which concerned the federal regulators because AT&T already controlled most of the US telephone system. Thus the formation Comstat. Comstat (Communications Satellite Corp.) was a corporation that was designed to control US satellite communications and development. Now a days, satellites are used for everything to army to internet connection, to global communication systems.