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The first communications satellite was named Echo 1. It was launched by NASA in 1960 and was a passive satellite that reflected signals back to Earth to demonstrate the feasibility of using satellites for long-distance communications.
The first US communications satellite to amplify radio and TV signals was called Echo 1. It was launched on August 12, 1960, and was a passive communications satellite that reflected signals rather than amplifying them.
telstar 1 was the first satellite to send a live television broadcast
The satellite that carried the first television signal across the ocean was called Telstar. The first Telstar satellite was launched in 1962.
The first artificial Earth satellite was Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on the 4th of October 1957the moon, because it orbits the earthThe first satellite launched was 'Sputnik' - the first communications satellite was 'Telstar' launched on Oct 27 1962
Telstar, the first dedicated communications satellite, was launched on July 10, 1962. Earlier satellites (that merely reflected or repeated signals) were the aluminized Mylar balloon "Echo I" and the Philco satellite "Courier 1B", both launched in 1960.
It was built to receive the signal from the first commercial communications satellite Telstar. Goonhilly was built in the far south-west of England so as to be as close as possible to the USA, where signals were being transmitted to and from.
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Telstar - relayed from Europe to north America in 1962
Telstar 1 was launched on July 10, 1962Telstar 2 was launched on May 7, 1963