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  2. List of communications satellite firsts - Wikipedia

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    First tandem satellite broadcast (with Syncom 3) December 13, 1962 United States: Syncom 2: First communications satellite in geosynchronous orbit: July 16, 1963 United States: Syncom 3: First communications satellite in geostationary orbit First Olympic broadcast to international audiences First tandem satellite broadcast (with Relay 1) August ...

  3. Our World (1967 TV program) - Wikipedia

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    The two-hour event, which was broadcast on Sunday 25 June 1967 [a] in twenty-four countries, had an estimated audience of 400 to 700 million people, the largest television audience up to that date. Four communications satellites were used to provide worldwide coverage. This broadcast was a technological milestone in television broadcasting.

  4. Satellite television - Wikipedia

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    Intelsat I (1965), the world's first commercial communications satellite, was used among others to relay the Our World multi-national broadcast (1967), the first multi-satellite relayed television broadcast. The world's first commercial communications satellite, called Intelsat I and nicknamed "Early Bird", was launched into geosynchronous ...

  5. Telstar - Wikipedia

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    Syncom 2 was the first geosynchronous satellite and its successor, Syncom 3, broadcast pictures from the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The first commercial geosynchronous satellite was Intelsat I ("Early Bird") launched in 1965. Telstar was considered a technical success. According to a US.

  6. Satellite television by region - Wikipedia

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    The medium-scale Broadcasting Satellite for Experimental Purposes (BSE) was planned by Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MOPT) and developed by the National Space Development Agency of Japan since 1974. After that, the first Japanese experimental broadcasting satellite, called BSE or Yuri, was launched in 1978.

  7. Telstar 1 - Wikipedia

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    Telstar 1 is a defunct communications satellite launched by NASA on July 10, 1962. One of the earliest communications satellites, it was the first satellite to achieve live transmission of broadcast television images between the United States and Europe.

  8. SCORE (satellite) - Wikipedia

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    The message recorded of Eisenhower.. SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment) was the world's first purpose-built communications satellite.Launched aboard an American Atlas rocket on December 18, 1958, SCORE provided the second test of a communications relay system in space (the first having been provided by the USAF/NASA's Pioneer 1), [3] the first broadcast of a human voice ...

  9. Syncom - Wikipedia

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    Syncom 3 was the first geostationary communication satellite, launched on August 19, 1964 with the Delta D #25 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral. The satellite, in orbit near the International Date Line, had the addition of a wideband channel for television and was used to telecast the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo to the United States. [7]