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    The Communications Satellite Act of 1962 was put into effect in order to deal with the issue of commercialization of space communications. This act was...
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  • by the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 and incorporated as a publicly traded company on February 1, 1963. The primary goal of COMSAT was to serve as...
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  • than 18,000 of our citizens visited the U.S.S.R." March 17 – President Johnson transmits a report on the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 to Congress...
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    aboard a Thor-Delta rocket. 31 August 1962 – President John F. Kennedy signs the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 providing the regulatory framework...
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  • foreign communications. They are given the power to make legal decisions and judgments about regulation content under the Communications Satellite Act of 1962...
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    The Communications Act of 1934 is a United States federal law signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 19, 1934, and codified as Chapter 5 of Title...
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    satellites. The U.S. Communications Satellite Act of 1962 allowed commercial consortia owning and operating their own satellites, although these were...
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    Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly...
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  • charge Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, which gave municipalities the power to grant cable television monopolies Satellite Home Viewer Act (US) (1988)...
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    Background: Radio Act of 1927 Communications Act of 1934 Administrative Procedures Act of 1947 Communications Satellite Act of 1962 National Telecommunications...
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    The All-Channel Receiver Act of 1962 (ACRA) (47 U.S.C. § 303(s)), commonly known as the All-Channels Act, was passed by the United States Congress in...
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    the Communications Satellite Act of 1962. INTELSAT was originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO) and operated...
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    The Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting Act of 2013 (H.R. 2844) is a bill that passed the United States House of Representatives...
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    Communications furthered satellite services. By 2004, global investment in all space sectors was estimated to be US$50.8 billion. As of 2010, 31% of all...
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  • Amateur radio satellites have helped advance the science of satellite communications. Contributions include the launch of the first satellite voice transponder...
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  • 1962: Communications Satellite Act of 1962, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 87–624, 76 Stat. 419 October 10, 1962: McIntire–Stennis Act of 1962...
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  • Providing for the carrying out of certain provisions of the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 January 4, 1965 65 11192 Inspection of income, estate, and gift...
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  • The United States Revenue Act of 1962 established a 7% investment tax credit and required information reporting to the government for interest and dividend...
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    National PTT (Post Office) to develop satellite communications, it was launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral on July 10, 1962, the first privately sponsored space...
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    the ending of a filibuster against the Communications Satellite Act of 1962. The vote was 63–27 in favor of ending debate, three more than the two-thirds...
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  • The acts of the 108th United States Congress includes all Acts of Congress and ratified treaties by the 108th United States Congress, which lasted from...
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    employees as of July 2020. The FCC's mission, specified in Section One of the Communications Act of 1934 and amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (amendment...
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  • The acts of the 107th United States Congress includes all Acts of Congress and ratified treaties by the 107th United States Congress, which lasted from...
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  • The list of acts of the 106th United States Congress includes all Acts of Congress and ratified treaties by the 106th United States Congress, which lasted...
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  • Act was passed by the 87th United States Congress in 1962 and signed into law President John F. Kennedy to deal with unexpected and urgent needs of refugees...
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    of 8,600 military personnel. It operates 77 spacecraft in total across various programs such as GPS, Space Fence, military satellite communications constellations...
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  • vote. President George W. Bush vetoed the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005 during this Congress. This bill was not enacted by Congress over the...
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    regulation. Prior to Federation of Australia in 1901, each of the six Australian colonies had its own telephony communications network. The Australian networks...
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    he decided to not act unless another attack was made. On 28 October 1962, Khrushchev told his son Sergei that the shooting down of Anderson's U-2 was...
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  • British space programme (category Programmes of the Government of the United Kingdom)
    and launched using American rockets. The first British satellite, Ariel 1, was launched in 1962. The British space programme has always emphasized uncrewed...
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