When most people here about satellite communications in the military they think of the recent past or the present. In reality the Army has been working on satellite communications since 1946. It was then that they made radar contact with the moon. Starting in 1954 and achieving their goal in 1959, the army made a communications link between Hawaii and Washington D.C. using the moon as a reflector.
Martin, Donald H., A History of U.S. Military Satellite Communications Systems, Aerospace, http://www.aero.org/publications/crosslink/winter2002/01.html
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