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RE: Telstar

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Television pictures from across the Atlantic 'had huge impact'

The grandson of the Scottish television pioneer John Logie Baird has said British culture was changed by the first satellite images.
Fifty years ago on Monday, public satellite television images were beamed across the Atlantic from the United States to Britain and Europe.
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On 11 July 1962 Goonhilly Downs, Cornwall, England, transmitted the first live television signal across the Atlantic from Europe to the USA, via TELSTAR. This Satellite Earth Station was designed and built by the British Post Office Engineering Department. Known as 'Arthur' (of "Knights of the Round Table" fame), its open-dish design became a model for satellite television earth stations throughout the world.
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50th anniversary of the Telstar 1 satellite launch in 1962.

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National Air and Space Museum Program Will Recognise Telstar and the Birth of Global Communications

Telstar, the satellite that made the world's first transmissions of live television possible in 1962, will be the subject of a program at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum July 12. The "Telstar 50th Anniversary" symposium, which will begin at 1:30 p.m., will be presented in cooperation with the Embassy of France. It will begin with a satellite television connection to the Pleumeur-Bodou Telecommunications Museum in France commemorating the first global transmission of a television signal 50 years ago.
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Today is the anniversary of the Telstar 1 Launch. (1962)

Telstar is the name of various communications satellites, including the first ever such satellite able to relay television signals.
The first two Telstar satellites were "Telstar 1", launched July 10, 1962 and operational until February 21, 1963, and "Telstar 2", launched May 7, 1963 and operational until May 16, 1965.
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Teachers at Telstar Middle/High School have homeroom groups called satellites. The staff prides itself on open communication with students. And at one time, sports teams were called the Telstar Satellites.
All this goes back to the unique place in history of the SAD 44 school district: Just over the hill in Andover was the site of the world's first communications satellite, known as Telstar. It sent its first message on July 2, 1962.
A replica of the 3½-foot-diameter, life-size satellite sits behind safety glass in the high school corridor. It returned to its hallowed space only a few weeks ago after being restored by a company in New Jersey.

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