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Telstar: see communications satellite communications satellite artificial satellite that functions as part of a global radio-communications network. Echo 1, the first communications satellite, launched in 1960, was an instrumented inflatable sphere that passively reflected radio signals back to ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Telstar 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a Boeing Thor Delta rocket and soon thereafter broadcast the first live television signal from Andover, Maine to Goonhilly Downs, England and Pleumeur-Bodou, France. Kennedy, speaking about Telstar 1, July 11 1962 SATELLITE FEEDS AVAILABLE Loral Skynet will broadcast video clips from some of the original, groundbreaking Telstar 1 transmissions. The inaugural satellite, Telstar 1, was launched on July 10, 1962, and was the world's first active communications satellite. |
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