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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
GeeCrow said the concept not the actual development. Big difference. It is entirely feasible that the future scientists read Arthur C Clarke and figured out a way to build on his concept. ...
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Exactly.
Clark was not the first to recognize the properties of a geosynchronous orbit. He did introduce the idea of placing a communications satellite in such an orbit and wrote a paper discussing this and its impact on global communications for which he was awarded the Franklin Institute's Stuart Ballantine Medal in the late 1940s. He included this concept in his popular science non-fiction book
Exploration of Space (1951), which was my childhood introduction to space flight and orbital mechanics.
Clark has a strong science background. During WWII, while serving in the Royal Air Force, he worked on the British early warning defense RADAR and then on development their ground-controlled approach RADAR system, which he wrote about in his book
Glide Path.