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When the Astra 1A satellite left the launch pad at Kourou in French Guiana on December 11, 1988 to kick off the era of direct-to-home satellite television in Europe, it was 30 years nearly to the day after the very first communications satellite took off for space.
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Bains, G., Forrester, C. (2011). 12 Satellites: The ‘Early Birds’. In: Forrester, C. (eds) High Above. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12009-1_12
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