Lore – Satellites are important

So, in the previous two lore images, I've established that aquatic travel is very dangerous, on account of the aquatic super predators. This effects travel, international commerce, international communications, and imperial conquest. Now, of those four, there is a solution for international communications: Satellites. Satellites would not be available at the onset of the super predator conflict. There would need to be a desire for international mass communications and you would need multiple countries/governments working together to achieve this goal. My mindset here would be a multi-country "Manhattan Project" style venture. This could be fun, in that you would have some countries excluded from this venture (bad histories/relations, perhaps?) but even those kept out would find a way to learn from this, probably through espionage. Perhaps in this world, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were caught passing along satellite research/technology to the Russo Confederation? Also, with the lack of a Cold War and a common goal for counties to better/more easily communicate, many scientists/engineers would focus their efforts on this task and would probably speed up the development of satellites. In our world, Sputnik 1 was launched in the Fall of 1957, but with added focus, cooperation, and pooling of resources, the launch year could probably be moved up some, say to 1952 or 1953? Maybe sooner? 🤷 This is ripe for alternative historical developments! 😁