Editing Courier 1B (section)

==History==
As a Cold War initiative, Courier 1B was the 26th satellite launched by the US as opposed to the Soviet Union's six satellites since Sputnik I in 1957. Proposed by the [[US Army Signal Corps]] in September 1958, Courier 1B was a follow-up to [[SCORE (satellite)|SCORE]] program launched December 18, 1958. SCORE "was the first step of an evolutionary program to develop communication satellite systems for use by the military services".<ref>T.P. Mottley, D.H. Marx, W.P. Teetsel, "A Delayed - Repeater Satellite Communication System of Advanced Design", ''IRE Transactions on Military Electronics'', Vol. MIL-4, No. 2, April–July 1960. p. 195.</ref> The '''Project Courier''' was a joint program of the US [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] [[DARPA|(ARPA)]] along with the US [[Signal Corps (United States Army)|Army Signal Research and Development Laboratory]] at [[Fort Monmouth]], [[New Jersey]].

Courier 1B would receive messages or photographs, store them, and then re-transmit them. Courier 1B was:

:''An experimental system to demonstrate the feasibility of using satellites for providing a solution to global communications problems. It was designed to store teletype messages and transmit them at high speed while the satellite is in view of a ground station... orbiting Earth at {{convert|1000|km}}''.<ref name=":0">Bartow, James E., Mottley, Thomas P., Teetsel, Walter P. "The Courier Communications System". In ''Telecommunication Satellites'', edited by K.W. Gatland (London: Illife Books LTD., 1964), p. 156.</ref>