Very often research and inventions for space programs can be applied to ordinary society shaping the world into what it is today. Society began to advance rapidly as ideas were shared between people around the world as based on the ideas it created many of the technologies used today. A very important invention, which initiated the transfer of ideas and made it quite easily possible, is global communication via satellites or COMSATS [1]. In this essay, the advantages and limitations of global communications satellites will be discussed and evaluated in relation to social and cultural factors. The first attempt at a communications satellite was in the 1950s called the Lunar Communications Project launched by the United States, in an attempt to develop a reliable method of wireless communication using the Moon as a natural communications satellite. Although the project was not successful, it initiated the idea for global communication. The first artificial satellite was launched, a balloon called Echo 1, used exclusively for global communication on August 12, 1960 it was able to send data into space and bring it back to another point on earth [20. Using the same concept, many countries have innovated the idea and launched their own satellites. Today, when a satellite is launched and is geosynchronous (rotates with the Earth's orbit) it is ready to go. It then transmits messages to ground stations who then receive these messages in code made up of 0s and 1s and, using a device called a transponder, interrupts the message and distributes it wherever it is found. to receive [3]. The process itself happens while sending emails, text messages, searching the Internet, etc. and in the 21st century the process takes less...... half the paper... ugh power transmitters with powerful antennas are found on earth ground stations, there is a lot of signal loss while transmitting messages into space as the signal weakens as it is transmitted. This presents few problems since the strength of the signal received on the uplink is not as critical as that received on the downlink. The downlink signal is critical because the signal transmitted by the satellite has very low power [8]. In conclusion, global communications satellites have a greater effect on society than can be understood. Numerous studies have been conducted to understand how dependent we have become on the artificial satellite orbiting the earth, connecting society to people across the country and the world. Like any other object, they too have their limitations which, hopefully, with further research, will be overcome.