It's the evening of July 9, 1962, and in the tiny town of Andover, Maine, a group of "telephone men" are making the final tests on "electronic gear that may or may not find and communicate with a tiny ...

CAPE CANAVERAL -- The United States successfully rocketed the world's first international communications satellite, Telstar, into orbit today in an effort to open a new era of global radio and "live" ...

The first live trans-Atlantic television satellite broadcast took place on July 23, 1962, and was made via AT&T’s Telstar 1 satellite. Telstar had been launched 13 days prior to the broadcast by a ...

Fifty years ago this week a Delta rocket roared into space carrying a payload that sparked a revolution in the way the world communicates. On board the rocket, launched on July 10, was Telstar, the ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Launched on July 10, 1962, Telstar 1, ...