Who brought the first satellite to Sri Lanka?

Answer 1

Arthur C. Clarke is remembered as the inventor of communication satellite. He described this concept in a paper titled Extra-Terrestrial Relays - Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?, published in Wireless World in October 1945. The geostationary orbit is now sometimes known as the Clarke Orbit or the Clarke Belt in his honour. The essay was reprinted in Ascent to Orbit, a collection of his technical writings that he brought out after receiving the Marconi Award in 1982 for his contributions to communications technology. Sir Clarke's professional writing career spanned over several decades.

In the 1950s, Clarke got interested in undersea exploration. He was an avid scuba diver and a member of the Underwater Explorers Club. Living in Sri Lanka afforded him the opportunity to visit the ocean year-round. It also inspired the locale for his novel The Fountains of Paradise, in which he described the concept of a space elevator. This, he believed, ultimately will be his legacy, more so than geostationary satellites, once the space elevators are ready, it will make the space shuttles obsolete.