Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- The Communications Committee, 1965 and 1966 -- Preface -- Contents -- Prologue: An Historical Prophecy -- Extra-Terrestrial Relays -- I. Commercial Point-to-Point Systems -- Early Bird Placement in a Stationary Orbit: Launch and Control System Maneuvers -- Early Bird I Communications Parameters -- Experimental Performance of the Early Bird Communication System -- Results of User Reaction Tests on Communication via Early Bird Satellite -- Subjective Evaluation of Telephone Communications via Early Bird Satellite and Cable Circuits -- II. Military Satellite Communication Systems -- Experience of the Defense Communications Agency in Operating Pilot Satellite Communications -- Communications via Several Satellites Using the Lincoln Experimental Terminal -- Optimization of Network Configurations in a Hybrid Satellite and Ground Communication System -- Synchronization of a Jam-Resistant Mobile Small-Terminal Satellite Communications System -- Decentralized Control for an Advanced Communication Satellite System -- Fading and Multipath Considerations in Aircraft/Satellite Communications Systems -- A Multiple-Access World-Wide Satellite Communication System for Aircraft Terminals -- Adaptive Digital Satellite Transmission Ground Terminal Design Considerations -- An Adaptive Twelve-Channel Multiplexer -- Cost Effectiveness Comparison of Defense Communications Satellite Systems -- III. Satellite Support Subsystems and Components -- Launch Vehicles as Support Subsystems for Communications Satellites -- Synchronous Satellite Station-Keeping -- Gravity Gradient Stabilization of Communication Satellite Systems -- Stabilite - A Three-Axis Attitude Control System Utilizing a Single Reaction Wheel -- A Wide-Band Solid-State I. F. Repeater for Communications Satellites.

Advances in Traveling-Wave Tubes for Spacecraft Communications Systems -- An Electronically Despun Switched Antenna -- Ground-Based Antennas for Satellite Communications -- Gain Limits of Electronically Despun Antennas for Communication Satellites -- IV. High-Power Systems -- Nuclear Power Systems for Advanced High-Powered Communications Satellites -- High-Powered Traveling-Wave Tubes for Space Transmitters -- A Direct-to-Home TV Satellite System for 1970 -- Self-Steering Arrays for Satellite Applications -- Earth Stations for Reception of Television Signals from a Stationary Satellite -- Required and Attainable Interference Ratios in Space Telecasting -- V. Systems Concepts: Present and Future -- Parametric Tradeoff Analysis for Comsat System Design -- Multiple-Access Modulation Techniques -- A Communication Satellite System for Many Users -- Use of Frequency-Time Coded Pulsed Signals in Satellite Communications Systems -- TV Network Satellite Systems -- Establishment and Maintenance of a Communication Satellite System -- Scheduling and Control of Satellite Communications Systems -- Ground and Satellite Telecommunications Networks for Global Information Systems -- Aeronautical Communication Satellites -- Post Echo II Passive Communication Satellites and Systems -- Orbit Position Control for Passive Communications Satellites -- Some Design Considerations for Planetary Relay Communications Satellites -- Lunar Communication Satellites -- Deep-Space Optical Communications -- VI. Sociological Overview -- Preface to Chapter VI -- Organization and Program of Intelsat -- Business Forecasting for Communication Satellite Systems -- Future Pattern of Communication Satellite Systems -- An Econometric Analysis of an Educational TV Distribution System -- Communications in Orbit: A Legal Analysis and Prognosis -- European Perspectives on Satellite Communications.