Participação do Brasil nas primeiras experiências mundiais para as comunicações através de satélites e na organização Intelsat: causas e consequências

Abstract

The dissertation is about the transition from model of exploitation of telecommunications in Brazil, which occurred in the years 60's. The transition from a model of exploration of TCs by foreign concessionaires to exploration directly by the State is studied. It presents the argument that the change in the exploitation of telecommunications services occurred successfully due to the existence in the country, in the 60's, of a National Development Project, with military governments to implement it. The methodology adopted to validate the argument is through documentary consultation, including electronic data. It is an applied research, based on empirical data. As a case study, satellite telecommunications that appeared worldwide in the 60's and the participation of Brazil are used. as this country was one of the first five to participate directly in pioneering experiences, in a NASA Relay project. The dissertation works on the TCs infrastructure paradigm and the use of artificial satellites, in the 60's in Brazil, to justify the importance of the State's role in fostering the development of infrastructure, in a peripheral country, at a time when the market economy, due to insufficient accumulated endogenous capital, could not provide for such development. The dissertation works the argument from the angles of political economy and technology. It uses two great moments: international and national, corresponding to two big chapters. It studies the evolution of telecommunications in Brazil, over a long period of time. Investigates the satellite system and satellite telecommunications. A chapter is dedicated to space activity, both internationally and nationally, including aspects of Defense.