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 — and ...

Yesterday was a rather big anniversary. It was fifty years since the first live pictures from America were broadcast to Europe, via Telstar 1, the first communications satellite to relay a television ...

(SPACE.com) Fifty years ago today, on July 12, 1962, the first ever live television signal was beamed across the Atlantic Ocean, ushering in a new era of communications that paved the way for the ...

Today, July 12, marks the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast from the Telstar satellite, the first commercial satellite in orbit. These broadcasts heralded a sea change in the way we communicated ...

The first live trans-Atlantic television satellite broadcast took place on July 23, 1962, and was made via AT&T’s Telstar 1 satellite. Telstar had been launched 13 days prior to the broadcast by a ...

Image of the Telstar 1 satellite. Telstar was launched by NASA on July 10, 1962, from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and was the first privately sponsored space-faring mission. Two days later, it relayed the ...

The Xbox One is a black, shiny box that is elegant at best or utilitarian at worst. It’s not the flashiest console we’ve ever seen – that title goes to the Coleco Telstar Arcade – but it’s an ...