Tuesday, July 10, 2012

50 years in SPAAAAACE: Telstar celebrates half-century since launch

50 years in SPAAAAACE: Telstar celebrates half-century since launch:


World's first active comms satellite stopped bouncing signals in'63


Vid  On 10 July 1962, the privately-owned Telstar 1 was blasted into orbit on the back of NASA's Thor-Delta rocket, and despite only working for a year it proved that commercial satellite communications was possible.…

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