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 ...

— AT&T’s Telstar 1 gained international fame its first day in orbit and opened the public’s eyes to the possibilities of satellite communications, though it would later become a dead end in the ...

Today, July 12, marks the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast from the Telstar satellite, the first commercial satellite in orbit. These broadcasts heralded a sea change in the way we communicated ...

A half-century ago, the world became much smaller. Until then, it was hard to get telephone and television signals from other continents. But then came the launch of Telstar on July 10, 1962 — and ...

1962: The Telstar 1 communications satellite relays the first trans-Atlantic television signal in history. Telstar was the product of an international collaboration to push the development of ...

WASHINGTON: In today’s world where pizza pan-sized satellite antennas delivering hundreds of television channels are as common as starlings on rooftops of homes, businesses, and even RVs, few recall a ...

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 ...

Prelaunch checkout of the receiver that registers instructions radioed from the ground. (Photo by B. Anthony Stewart, originally published in National Geographic. Launched 50 years ago today, Telstar ...

Of all the milestones in the history of aviation and spaceflight, the launch on 10 July 1962 of Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, arguably went on to touch more lives than any other ...