Dr. Strange was created as a pilot for the proposed television series "The Avengers".
 Clarke proposed a worldwide communications system which would function by means of three satellites equally spaced apart in earth orbit
 The first national network of television satellites, called Orbita, was created by the Soviet Union in October 1967, and was based on the principle of using the highly elliptical Molniya satellite for rebroadcasting and delivering of television signals to ground downlink stations

