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 ...

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

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 ...

— AT&T’s Telstar 1 gained international fame its first day in orbit and opened the public’s eyes to the possibilities of satellite communications, though it would later become a dead end in the ...

A half-century ago, the world became much smaller. Until then, it was hard to get telephone and television signals from other continents. But then came the launch of Telstar on July 10, 1962 — and ...

Fifty years ago today, on July 12, 1962, the first ever live television signal was beamed across the Atlantic Ocean, ushering in a new era of communications that paved the way for the globally ...

1962: The Telstar 1 communications satellite relays the first trans-Atlantic television signal in history. Telstar was the product of an international collaboration to push the development of ...