Title : 
Use of moon or satellite relays for global communications
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
General Electric Company, Philadelphia, Pa.; Page Communication Engineers, Inc., Washington, D. C.
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The range of global communications has been limited, in the past, by the ionospheric mode of propagation for the very high frequencies, and by the ground-wave mode of propagation for the very low frequencies.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Earth; Gain; Moon; Receiving antennas; Relays; Transmitting antennas;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Part I: Communication and Electronics, Transactions of the
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TCE.1960.6367319