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In the last century and one-half, the variety of communications technologies that are embedded in environments that can be affected by processes occurring in space have vastly increased. This paper presents some of the history of the subject of “space weather” as it affects communications, beginning with the earliest electric telegraph systems and continuing to today’s wireless communications using satellites and land links. An overview is presented of the present-day communications technologies that can be affected by solarterrestrial phenomena such as galactic cosmic rays, solar-produced plasmas, and geomagnetic disturbances in the Earth’s magnetosphere.
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Lanzerotti, L.J. (2001). Space Weather Effects on Communications. In: Daglis, I.A. (eds) Space Storms and Space Weather Hazards. NATO Science Series, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0983-6_12
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