Abstract This article examines the USSR's satellite communications provision in the international arena. The author first outlines the Intercosmos programme, collaboration between the USSR and France and India, and maritime satellite communications. He then discusses in detail the INTERSPUTNIK system, and Soviet international coverage and competitiveness in television. In conclusion, the complex interaction and overlap between cooperation and competition in space is explained.
The USSR and satellite communications
Competition and cooperation
Space Policy ; 1 , 3 ; 250-262
1985-01-01
13 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch