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About the Author

Bruce R. Elbert is a leading authority on satellites and telecommunications, having 35 years of working experience at his own consulting firm, Application Technology Strategy, Inc., and at Hughes, COMSAT, and the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He directed the design of several major satellite projects, including Palapa A, Indonesia's original satellite system; the Galaxy follow-on system, the largest and most successful C-band satellite TV system in the world; and the first GEO mobile satellite...