Today, July 12, marks the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast from the Telstar satellite, the first commercial satellite in orbit. These broadcasts heralded a sea change in the way we communicated ...

On July 10, 1962, the communications satellite Telstar 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to beam live ...

Algae blooms, peeling paint, and a host of fixes from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubblers have made it hard to diagnose what’s wrong with the Reflecting Pool—let alone how to clean up the mess.

It's the evening of July 9, 1962, and in the tiny town of Andover, Maine, a group of "telephone men" are making the final tests on "electronic gear that may or may not find and communicate with a tiny ...

PARIS — An International Launch Services (ILS) Proton rocket on May 21 successfully placed the Telesat Telstar 14R/Estrela do Sul 2 telecommunications satellite into orbit from Russia’s Baikonur ...

Forty years ago, engineers held their breath and entered a new era, beaming the world's first transatlantic television signal via the Telstar 1 satellite from Andover, Maine, to a twin station in ...

Yesterday was a rather big anniversary. It was fifty years since the first live pictures from America were broadcast to Europe, via Telstar 1, the first communications satellite to relay a television ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sept. 10 carrying the Telstar 18 Vantage satellite. Credit: SpaceX webcast PARIS — SpaceX ended a rare extended gap in launch activity Sept. 10 ...