Article ID: CBB605219522

A few words about this picture: The Inflatable Satellite (Summer 2007)

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To build a communications satellite, NASA engineers fell back on humanity’s oldest flight technology.

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Authors & Contributors
Barton, Jenifer
Schaefer, Agnes Schaefer
Odom, Brian C.
Jones, Thomas D.
Dienesch, Robert M.
Huntington, Tom
Concepts
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Space programs
Satellites, artificial
Cold War
Space race
Technology transfer
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
India
Netherlands
Russia
Europe
Soviet Union
Institutions
India Space Research Organization (ISRO)
California Institute of Technology. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
United Nations
Project Mercury (U.S.)
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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