26-Feb-2007
Furthering the COMSAT Legacy
From Steve Teller

For the last few years we have been digitizing information so it is 
more widely available to the dispersed former employees of COMSAT. 
We now have several important pieces of information online and we 
are continuing the effort to get more and more online. While that is 
continuing (and hopefully picking up steam), we now have a lot of 
material to draw from to use as material for publishing more 
historical accounts of COMSAT.

A year ago I joined the Board of Directors of SSPI (www.sspi.org) and 
at the first meeting I was approached by the education chairman about 
an issue devoted to COMSAT. I told him of our efforts to digitize 
lots of information and I wanted to get more of the effort completed 
before I started on this sort of effort. I recently told him that I 
felt that the digitizing effort had gone far enough to now support 
the research for the COMSAT issue.

We are looking for volunteers to serve on an editorial board and for 
people to serve as authors for an issue of an online publication that 
is to be devoted to COMSAT. The Spring 2007 issue of the Online Journal 
of Space Communication (www.spacejournal.org) is planned to be devoted 
to COMSAT.

If you are interested in supporting this effort, please send email 
to: teller@iotsystems.com indicating your interest.

Thanks, Steve