Article ID: CBB023055354

Communications Technologies as Community Technologies: Alaska Native Villages and the NASA Satellite Health Trials of the 1970s (2017)

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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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Authors & Contributors
Hans Moosmüller
Barton, Jenifer
W. Paul Menzel
Lanzarotta, Tess
Matthew G. Fearon
Frederick B. House
Concepts
Satellites, artificial
Cold War
Science and politics
Earth sciences
Technology and government
Rockets; rocketry
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
Places
Alaska (U.S.)
United States
Arctic regions
Polar regions
Soviet Union
India
Institutions
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
Naval Arctic Research Laboratory
United Nations
University of Alaska Fairbanks. School of Mineral Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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