The Experimental Satellite that Gave Us Live International Television

The Experimental Satellite that Gave Us Live International Television

Throughout the 1950s, broadcast television was limited to domestic transmissions simply because we didn’t have a means to relay signals far enough to span the vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. It wasn’t until NASA shot Telstar, an unproven, newfangled "active" communications satellite into orbit in 1963, that mass media truly become an international phenomenon.

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