Telstar 1 satellite launch. A Thor-Delta 316 rocket launching from Cape Canaveral,Florida,USA,on 10th July 1962. On board the rocket was the Telstar 1 satellite,the world's first commercial communications satellite. Telstar 1 was built and operated by the American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) company. It provided direct television transmission and telephone communication between America,Europe,and Japan. With an orbital period of 2 and a half hours,Telstar 1 could only relay signals between two ground stations for about 30 to 40 minutes during each orbit,when both stations were in its line of sight | |
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