Telstar (nonfiction)

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Telstar is the name of various communications satellites. The first two Telstar satellites were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962.

It successfully relayed through space the first television pictures, telephone calls, and telegraph images, and provided the first live transatlantic television feed.

Telstar 2 launched May 7, 1963.

Telstar 1 and 2—though no longer functional—still orbit the Earth.

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