{"product_id":"silicon-sky-how-one-small-start-up-went-over-the-top-to-beat-the-big-boys-into-satellite-heaven-by-gary-dorsey","title":"'Silicon Sky: How One Small Start-Up Went Over the Top to Beat the Big Boys into Satellite Heaven' by Gary Dorsey","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"116\" data-end=\"740\"\u003eA very 1999 bit of dot-com \/ aerospace optimism following the race to build a new satellite communications company before the giants could crush the field with money, patents, and sheer corporate gravity.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"116\" data-end=\"740\"\u003eIt follows Pegasus, a start-up trying to break into the satellite launch\/communications world, with all the usual late-century ingredients: venture money, NASA-adjacent romance, private space ambition, heroic nerds, whiteboards, prototypes, and probably several men in fleece vests believing history has personally requested their attendance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"742\" data-end=\"1193\"\u003eGood for readers interested in the pre-SpaceX commercial space era, tech history, start-up culture before it calcified into TED-talk mulch, and the strange hinge point where aerospace, telecommunications, private capital, and internet-era ambition started braiding themselves together. It looks especially good as a curiosity object now: not “AI will change everything” but “satellites will change everything,” same cathedral, different stained glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"742\" data-end=\"1193\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback. First printing, March 1999. Michael Bessie Book \/ Perseus Books. Some light general handling wear visible to cover and corners, but appears clean and readable.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45649829396563,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker_18.png?v=1780921957","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/silicon-sky-how-one-small-start-up-went-over-the-top-to-beat-the-big-boys-into-satellite-heaven-by-gary-dorsey","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}