Still in orbit: Telstar, the 50-year-old satellite and telecommunications genesis for the Masses

Still in orbit: Telstar, the 50-year-old satellite and telecommunications genesis for the Masses

Telstar was the first satellite to relay television broadcasts across continents.

Who was responsible Telstar ? Some studly you old enough to remember the song was appointed by the tornadoes. However, those who know the music in detail would be able to go one step further and say, Joe Meek, the Englishman who wrote and produced the instrumental hit in 1962.

If you dig deeper and find inspiration looking for, then we have the communications satellite into orbit around the earth sent 50 years ago this month, 10 To mention July 1962.

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decommissioned in December 1962 – Telstars and others have gone into space to meet our need for communication, because -. the original is still in orbit, and occasionally visible with binoculars

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is undoubtedly the reason why you can sit at home in the winter nights and enjoy Cadel Evans on his way to Paris pedaling and the latest gaffe by the presidential candidates and U.S.”” send a hero studly our Olympic athletes grams in London.

This was the birth studly global communications for the masses. Even if a satellite was the first form studly response 1 in 1960, it was more studly a metallic balloon to passively reflect the signals; Telstar satellite was more like today

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transmitted the first television images, live and recorded, the space between two continents by the day after it was launched. He also managed the first call is transmitted through space, the first fax and other data.

If this list studly records that were not enough, even Telstar times between the U.S. and Europe within a microsecond synchronized each other, than the previous best attempt studly 2000 microseconds.

Although it was launched by NASA aboard a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, was sponsored, in fact, the first privately financed project space shared by the Bell Telephone Laboratories in the United States, the General Post Office UK , its French equivalent studly NASA. Telstar itself was built by Bell Labs and can release as an oversized beach ball, designed to be rich in technology. Weighing about 77 kg and measu ring almost 88 inches in diameter, is equipped with solar panels along the outside studly an unfortunate 14 watts studly power generated was fitted.

modern versions are in geostationary orbit, but Telstar was elliptical, meaning it was only for 20 minutes at each orbit, two ½ hour will be used when it passed over the Atlantic.

the receipt and transmission systems were not very powerful, and as such had the antennas are housed in giant domes studly the earth the size studly a 14-storey building.

Although

decommissioned in December 1962 – Telstars and others have gone into space to meet our need for communication, because -. the original is still in orbit, and occasionally visible with binoculars