When is a satellite a medical technology? In the early 1970s, two NASA satellites, ATS-1 and ATS-6, became part of a series of biomedical experiments taking place high above the Arctic in an effort to repurpose Cold War communications technologies for the construction of community health systems. This effort to use technology for health and community development brought NASA scientists, Alaska Native political leaders, and physicians and nurses of the Indian Health Service into an unlikely partnership. The results was a morally charged relationship between telecommunications and public health that continues to this day.
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