Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s 1945 prediction of the geostationary satellite was dismissed by some Wireless World readers. Twenty years later, on April 6, 1965, the launch of Intelsat 1 proved the famed science-fiction novelist got it largely right.

The planned deployment of thousands of LEO satellites by OneWeb and SpaceX’s Starlink are proof that the crusade for high throughput, low latency and wide coverage has only started.

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