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The first commercial satellite, AT&T's Telstar, was launched yesterday in 1962.
Telstar, the world's first commercial satellite, marked the shift from outer space's potential military applications to its peaceful uses — which is the way most people think of space ventures today. Within hours of Telstar's launch on a Thor-Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., the satellite beamed a non-public test transmission from Andover Earth Station in Maine to the Pleumeur-Bodou ground station in France. Two weeks later, on July 23, it relayed the first-ever public, live trans-Atlantic TV signal, linking Europe and North America....Telstar 1 was capable of carrying just one black-and-white TV channel, plus 600 simultaneous voice calls. It was in operation for less than a year, but it blazed a trail for generations of satellites, including Telstar 18 in 2004.
50 years after Telstar: How Space Age spawned communication ageAs you can imagine, global connectivity has revolutionized the way we communicate and behave. [html]
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