Telstar pushes international communications to the next level. 1962: The Telstar 1 communications satellite relays the first trans-Atlantic television signal in history. Telstar was the product of an ...

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 ...

It's the evening of July 9, 1962, and in the tiny town of Andover, Maine, a group of "telephone men" are making the final tests on "electronic gear that may or may not find and communicate with a tiny ...

— AT&T’s Telstar 1 gained international fame its first day in orbit and opened the public’s eyes to the possibilities of satellite communications, though it would later become a dead end in the ...

Made by sports giant adidas, the classic Telstar has set the tone for decades of innovation, technological advancements ANOTHER World Cup means another official World Cup ball. Though the World Cup ...

Fifty years ago today, the Space Age gave birth to the age of satellite communication as we know it — though it wasn't clear at the time just how world-changing that outer-space angle would turn out ...