INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON ESTABLISHMENT, OWNERSHIP, OPERATION AND REGULATION OF A COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE SYSTEM 80559 O JULY 25, 26, 27, AND 28, 1961 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1962 COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE OREN HARRIS, Arkansas, Chairman JOHN BELL WILLIAMS, Mississippi SAMUEL N. FRIEDEL, Maryland TORBERT H. MACDONALD, Massachusetts JOHN JARMAN, Oklahoma LEO W. O'BRIEN, New York JOHN E. MOSS, California JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan JOE M. KILGORE, Texas PAUL G. ROGERS, Florida ROBERT W. HEMPHILL, South Carolina JOHN B. BENNETT, Michigan J. ARTHUR YOUNGER, California R.V.S.21 Mr 62 Alexander, Fred C., Director of Telecommunications, Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, accompanied by William Edwin Plum- Farley, Philip J., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Atomic Energy and Outer Space; accompanied by Howard Furnas, Deputy Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Atomic Energy and Outer Space; Wreatham Gathright, Chief, Outer Space Section, Department of State; Francis Colt de Wolf, Chief, Tele- communications Division, Department of State; and Richard Black, Telecommunications Division, Department of State.. Loevinger, Hon. Lee, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; accompanied by John Duffner, executive assistant, and Jack James, trial attorney, Antitrust Division __ Minow, Hon. Newton N., Chairman, Federal Communications Com- mission, accompanied by Commissioners Frederick W. Ford, Rosel H. Hyde, Robert T. Bartley, Robert E. Lee, T. A. M. Craven, and John S. Cross; Max D. Paglin, General Counsel; and Bernard Strassburg, Assistant Chief, Common Carrier Bureau Paglin, Max D., General Counsel, Federal Communications Com- Webb, James E., Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, accompanied by John A. Johnson, General Counsel, 131 3, 291 341 95 Actions to be taken by the United States as a consequence of the ITU 205 Charts and graphs submitted for the record by Fred C. Alexander. 256-275 Guide for use of the 1959 ITU space and earth-space research bands__ 247 Memorandum of understanding between FCC and NASA on re- Proposed new international space research bands. 251 22 Supplemental notice of inquiry, docket No. 14024- Technical factors influencing the selection of frequencies for space Terms of reference for project 2.8 Telecommunications Planning Com- 195 U.S. proposals to the Geneva, 1959, Radio Conference for allocation 199 III |