Template:Did you know nominations/Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program
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The result was: promoted by Desertarun (talk) 08:06, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
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Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program
Artist's rendering of a Transtage deploying IDSCP satellites
- ... that the photos transmitted from South Vietnam to the United States by the Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program made possible near-real-time battlefield analysis during the Vietnam War? Source: [1]
- ALT1:... that the Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program, launched 1966–1968, was the first operational United States military communications satellite constellation? Source: [2]
Improved to Good Article status by Neopeius (talk). Self-nominated at 03:03, 15 May 2021 (UTC).
Article has been improved to GA status (laudable considering its very new as well). Long enough and meets prose policy guidelines. Hook meets guidelines as well and ALT0 is very interesting. QPQ done and image is in the public domain in the United States and therefore meets copyright stipulations. Jupitus Smart 18:15, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
References
- ^ Spires, David N.; Sturdevant, Rick W. (1997). "From Advent to Milstar: The U.S. Air Force and the Challenges of Military Satellite Communications". In Butica, Andrew J. (ed.). Beyond the Ionosphere: Fifty Years of Satellite Communication. Washington D.C.: NASA. pp. 68–69, 83. SP-4217.
- ^ Robert Earl Bird (1975). Communicating by Satellite. Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School. pp. 29–30. OCLC 1042380582.