The BIS 'First List' | next-iron-age

Visionary Thinking – The BIS was there First!

Over its 80 year history, the BIS has had many occasions where it has acted as the forum for new and innovative ideas and developments in Space. It continues to encourage and promote forward thinking ideas and concepts for the future exploration and utilisation of Space.

1930-

1938

First serious engineering study of a rocket capable of taking humans to the Moon and returning

1939

First development of an instrument specifically designed for spaceflight

1940-

1945

First proposal for the use of geosynchronous orbit for worldwide communications

ARTHUR C Clarke

1946

First identification of the use of unmanned communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit (E Burgess 1946)