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 ...

The new World Cup ball comes from historic stock: the original Telstar was the first ball to use the now-familiar truncasted icosahedrom — 12 black pentagonal panels and 20 white ones.

It was 50 years ago today that Telstar, which had been lofted into low-Earth orbit two days earlier, relayed the first-ever transatlantic television signal, flung skyward and eastward from 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 ...

The "Telstar 50th Anniversary" symposium will begin at 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT), with a satellite television connection to the Pleumeur-Bodou Telecommunications Museum in France. During the live ...

Fifty years ago today, the little Telstar satellite relayed the first TV transmission across the Atlantic. It wasn't long before President Kennedy had his black-and-white electrons beamed from the ...

Telstar’s transponder capacity was extremely limited by today’s standards — about 500 voice telephone circuits, or one TV channel, and its power output was in the neighborhood of 4 W, requiring huge ...

A look back at the way that the Telstar 1 satellite -- the world's first active communication satellite -- shaped the modern world.

Telstar never reached even a full year of service - its receivers being bombarded by radiation both from American and Russian atmospheric nuclear tests, along with the radiation dosage absorbed ...