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The first television picture relayed from earth to space and back occurred on July 10, 1962. The transmission, which showed the American flag waving in front of the Earth Station in Andover, Maine, was made possible when NASA launched AT&T's Telstar, the world's first active communications satellite, at four thirty-five that morning.

The idea of an active satellite, which doesn't simply reflect signals but amplifies and retransmits them, was conceived by science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke in 1945. And in 1955, John Pierce of Bell Telephone Laboratories sketched the possibilities for satellite communications in a scientific paper. Two years later, the Russians launched Sputnik, and the space race began. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) soon began launching American satellites.

Pierce, meanwhile, had convinced AT&T management to proceed. In January 1960, AT&T and NASA agreed to a joint project. AT&T would design and construct an experimental satellite and pay NASA to launch it. It would be the first privately sponsored space launch.

Researcher Eugene O'Neill led a team at Bell Telephone Laboratories that designed Telstar, a 34 1/2-inch, 170-pound satellite that fit NASA's Delta rocket. Telstar would receive microwave signals from a ground station, amplify them and rebroadcast them. The team calculated an orbital path the rocket could reach, and located an ideal site for the U.S. ground station near Andover, Maine.

Here they built a massive 160-foot-diameter horn antenna, protected from the elements by the largest air-supported structure ever built. And on that morning in July 1962, the team held its collective breath as countdown led to a perfect blastoff. Telstar was in space.

That evening, AT&T President Frederick Kappel picked up a phone in Andover and placed a call. Vice President Lyndon B Johnson in Washington, D.C., answered. The call - the first ever transmitted through space - was relayed via Telstar. Within 30 minutes, Telstar produced several other firsts: successfully transmitting faxes, high- speed data, and both live and taped television. Portions of the television transmission were successfully received in France — the first live transmission of television across an ocean.

More elaborate television demonstrations followed later that month, including countries from Norway to Italy sending programs westward, and the United States sending programs east.

Telstar went out of service on Feb. 21, 1963, its mission accomplished. After a second successful experiment, Telstar II, AT&T retired from the field of satellite development and concentrated on leasing bandwidth for use in international telephony.

	\| HOME \| ONE SHEET MUSICAL IMAGERY LEADING ENTERTAINMENT NEW IMPROVISATIONAL ART This was shot up in Mountain View 1997 in a two story warehouse a 2 stage set of musical gear to support 2 groups of the essential instruments, drums, bass, guitar, keys, synthesizer. and just behind the stage a two story white movie screen that we projected animated kaleidoscopic computer generated imagery mixed with faces of musicians on the stage platform. The Idea was so that when first instrument got tired the second instrument would come join the groove by matching what the first was doing and then take over. This activity was scheduled to last the whole Evening music nonstop and was simply called "kitchen Soup". Leading up to The main course of the event "The Channeling" as the clock approaches 12:pm as it would for New Years Eve count down, the music, the energy, the movie screen The Kinetics was through the roof and at one point a burst of Plasma exploding from an unsuspecting amplifier, it was Magic! This video is footage of the last minutes of the evening, event, turn of the year, of the century, and the Millennium. Artists/Talent: Drew Youngs, Steve Laighten, Mark Sanjuan, Adam Radle, Thomas Dolby, Dennis Gibson, Dennis James, Terry Carlton, Bob Ramirez, Neil & Pegi Young, Kevin Cryder, RJ from "DADDYO", Tom Aragon, Karen Bentley on Electric Violin. MEDIA: Channel 26 KTMV. Peter Tobin of VISUAL RHYTHMS. SGI aka Silicon Graphics, Inc. Providing the million dollar infinite storage server named - "The Mother Ship" Rendering kaleidoscopic computer generated imagery in real time. Jean Noel Aubrun. Documentary Film. Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab. Richard Zadarko Stanford Linear Accelerator Center TEAM: Betty j Ewing Publicist/co-Producer. Susan Dunn Artist Mngt. Michael C Drebert Director/Founder of MILENIA LITTLE HISTORY ON BROADCASTING AROUND THE WORLD 1962: Satellite Transmission The first television picture relayed from earth to space and back occurred on July 10, 1962. The transmission, which showed the American flag waving in front of the Earth Station in Andover, Maine, was made possible when NASA launched AT&T's Telstar, the world's first active communications satellite, at four thirty-five that morning. The idea of an active satellite, which doesn't simply reflect signals but amplifies and retransmits them, was conceived by science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke in 1945. And in 1955, John Pierce of Bell Telephone Laboratories sketched the possibilities for satellite communications in a scientific paper. Two years later, the Russians launched Sputnik, and the space race began. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) soon began launching American satellites. Pierce, meanwhile, had convinced AT&T management to proceed. In January 1960, AT&T and NASA agreed to a joint project. AT&T would design and construct an experimental satellite and pay NASA to launch it. It would be the first privately sponsored space launch. Researcher Eugene O'Neill led a team at Bell Telephone Laboratories that designed Telstar, a 34 1/2-inch, 170-pound satellite that fit NASA's Delta rocket. Telstar would receive microwave signals from a ground station, amplify them and rebroadcast them. The team calculated an orbital path the rocket could reach, and located an ideal site for the U.S. ground station near Andover, Maine. Here they built a massive 160-foot-diameter horn antenna, protected from the elements by the largest air-supported structure ever built. And on that morning in July 1962, the team held its collective breath as countdown led to a perfect blastoff. Telstar was in space. That evening, AT&T President Frederick Kappel picked up a phone in Andover and placed a call. Vice President Lyndon B Johnson in Washington, D.C., answered. The call - the first ever transmitted through space - was relayed via Telstar. Within 30 minutes, Telstar produced several other firsts: successfully transmitting faxes, high- speed data, and both live and taped television. Portions of the television transmission were successfully received in France — the first live transmission of television across an ocean. More elaborate television demonstrations followed later that month, including countries from Norway to Italy sending programs westward, and the United States sending programs east. Telstar went out of service on Feb. 21, 1963, its mission accomplished. After a second successful experiment, Telstar II, AT&T retired from the field of satellite development and concentrated on leasing bandwidth for use in international telephony.

1962: Satellite Transmission