Extra-Terrestrial Relays:
Can Rocket Stations Give World-wide Radio Coverage?
By Arthur C. Clarke

Here is a facsimile of Mr. Clarke's paper describing the principles for communication via satellites in geostationary orbits. It was published in Wireless World, October 1945, pp. 305-308.

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