In 1965, the US Air Force and the Lincoln Laboratory at MIT launched two Lincoln Experimental Satellites (LES) into orbit around the Earth: LES-1 and LES-2. These were the first super-high-frequency satellites, using the X-band of the electromagnetic spectrum. “Lincoln Laboratory’s space communications program after Project West Ford began in 1963 with a charter to build and demonstrate military space …
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