Table 3
Summary Time Line of Military and Civilian Disaster and Wide-Area Telemedicine Deployments
| Project Area or Name | Infrastructure | Capabilities |
| 1989 U.S./U.S.S.R. Telemedicine Space Bridge (civilian) | INTEL-SAT, COMSAT | 1-way video, 2-way audio, fax |
| 1990 Hurricane Hugo (military) | INMARSAT, land lines | CT |
| 1991 Gulf War (military) | INMARSAT, land lines | CT |
| 1992 Somalia (military) | INMARSAT, land lines | CT, still image |
| 1993 Primetime I, Macedonia and Croatia (military) | Orion satellite | CT, still image |
| Space Bridge, Moscow (civilian) | GTE Spacenet, G-Star II, WSDRN satellite (Russian) | 2-way video, audio, telepathy |
| 1994 Haiti (military) | INMARSAT, ACTS satellite | CT, video, still image, digital acquisition devices |
| Space Bridge to Russia (civilian) | Internet, land lines | Video, audio, text, whiteboard |
| 1995 Primetime II, Croatia (military) | Orion satellite, ATM technology | CT, still image, ultrasound, color Doppler |
| 1996 Primetime III, Bosnia (military) | Orion satellite, ISDN | CT, still image, ultrasound, color Doppler, store-and-forward |
| ACTS Montana Demonstration (civilian) | ACTS satellite | On-site acquisition devices (audio, video, data) |
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Note: INTEL-SAT indicates international telecommunication satellite; COMSAT, communication satellite; INMARSAT, international maritime satellite; CT, computed tomography; GTE, General Telephone and Electronics Corporation; WSDRN, Western Satellite Data Relay Network; ACTS, NASA Advanced Communication Technology Satellite; ATM, asynchronous transfer mode; ISDN, integrated services digital network.
