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| Keywords: Clarke-Tech (1).tif en It was during the late 40's when writer C Clarke Author of 2001 Space Odissey had imagined that if a television transmitter could be placed at a certain distance from the earth it was possible to cover with its signal an entire continent To achieve this intent those transmitter would have been placed on satellites orbiting at 36000Km from earth at equatorial line level An ingenious system seen the fact that in this way the satellites would have followed exactly the earth rotation The satellite viewed from the earth would have appeared as a fixed point in the sky With three of these satellites Clarke thought it was possible to let the television signal cover the whole globe The vast majority of the scientist back then was laughing at this proposal defining it science fiction Many years needed to pass before the first radio/television comunication satellite was launched during the cold war at the end of the 50's The president of the United States of America Eisenhower was able to irradiate his Christmas whish speach to the whole world through the satellite Score The belt at 36000Km positioned right above the Equatorial line where the satellites are orbiting has been nicknamed Clarke's belt in honor of the guy that first thought of making use of it It was the beginning of a new e germany Clarke-tech Text logos Logos of companies | ||||