In Memory of Arthur C Clarke

The death of Arthur C Clarke is regrettable news. I have read all his books and 2001 Space Odyssey is one of the all time great movies. But I most remember him for the Clarke Belt which he proposed in science fiction and became science fact with asynchronous orbits for satellites. If you owned one of the old "C" band satellite systems where you had to tune in your own birds with a 3 meter or larger dish, you learned about the Clarke Belt - sometimes the hard way.



Now we all have Cable or Dish Network/Direct TV with a small stationary dish, but they still get their signals from the Clarke Belt.

The same evolution is now happening with the space elevator and hopefully someday it will be science fact.