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In contrast to this ideal situation, the launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite on 4 October 1957 created an immediate need within the United States to track and maintain a catalog of orbital elements for artificial Earth satellites. Creation of a fundamentally new technical capability ideally begins with the recognition of some future need, a careful description of requirements, development, testing, and operational implementation. This required inventing a solution to a problem that did not even exist prior to 1957. Thus, the initial effort was driven both by external circumstances and by highly constrained solution options such as computing and data communications capacities.