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Communications Technologies as Community Technologies: Alaska Native Villages and the NASA Satellite Health Trials of the 1970s

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: In May 1975, high above the earth's surface, a structure resembling a large mushroom with two snow shovels attached to its dome released itself from stable geosynchronous orbit and drifted to a new station over Lake Victoria in Central Africa.The passage of the NASA Applied Technology Satellite 6 (ATS-6) from the Western Hemisphere to the Eastern Hemisphere marked the conclusion of a set of innovative trials that used satellites as healthcare delivery tools for remote villages in the Alaskan interior.1 Two other partners in these trials, the Indian Health Service and the Lister Hill Center for Biocommunications (a new division of the National Library of Medicine)

Source: Technology s Stories

DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2017.5.2.02

Authors: Tess Lanzarotta, Jeremy Greene

Institutions: Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Yale University, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Language: English

Topic: History of Science and Medicine

Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: United States Agency for International Development, Harvard University