BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 108: (a) Welcome Center

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Description of Pictures: The Star Trek Enterprise model is now lit 30 minutes a day. I'd never seen this before and just happened to be there at the right time so this was a first for me.

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1. GAL108_171123_05.JPG: Telstar Telstar inaugurated an age of instant worldwide communications via satellite This is a flight spare of Telstar 1, the first active communications satellite. Telstar began an era of live international television. After its launch on July 10, 1962, it relayed television images between the United States, France, and England. Images of a taped performance by French singer Yves Montand, a Philadelphia Phillies-Chicago Cubs baseball game, and a live news conference by President John F. Kennedy were the first messages exchanged among the citizens of the "global village." Telstar was a political as well as a technical triumph for the United States. By 1962, the Soviet Union had scored a number of space firsts, but it did not launch a communications satellite. As a first the United States and its allies, Telstar stood as a powerful symbol of the West's commitment to open societies. "It was only eight minutes long... had no stars, no script... it was one of the most important television broadcasts ever presented." -- Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Earth to Telstar: Telstar received signals from one Earth station and retransmitted them to another on a different continent. It was designed and built by AT&T Bell Laboratories and used ground stations in Maine in the United States, Pleumeur-Bodou in France, and Goonhilly Downs in England. A huge horn antenna in Andover, Maine, tracked and communicated with Telstar as it passed overhead. Because of the satellite's highly elliptical and relatively low orbi9t, it could only relay communications for 20 to 30 minutes at a time. An engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmde, New Jersey, assembles Telsar. We Are the World: Telstar 1 operated only for a few months. But it inaugurated an age of instant, worldwide television and media coverage, now a multibillion-dollar industry. The ability to watch live news, sports, and entertainment has made the world seem smaller. Media coverage of Telstar made it a sensation. The hit song "Telstar" by the Tornados became one of the first instrumental songs to reach radio's top-40 list. The song used a space-age synthesized sound of an organ. In 1985, Live Aid was simulcast around the world from two locations using satellites. The benefit raised money to alleviate famine in Africa, using satellite communications to unite the world in a common cause in real time. Telstar was covered with small solar cells to catch solar energy. Small microwave antenna horns placed around its equator ensured that one would always be pointing toward and Earth station. Satellite communication of television revolutionized live viewing of distant events. Now live broadcast of televised images makes world events readily accessible. Which U.S. president introduced the first international TV broadcast? [John F, Kennedy]
2. GAL108_171123_09.JPG: Telstar Telstar inaugurated an age of instant worldwide communications via satellite This is a flight spare of Telstar 1, the first active communications satellite. Telstar began an era of live international television. After its launch on July 10, 1962, it relayed television images between the United States, France, and England. Images of a taped performance by French singer Yves Montand, a Philadelphia Phillies-Chicago Cubs baseball game, and a live news conference by President John F. Kennedy were the first messages exchanged among the citizens of the "global village." Telstar was a political as well as a technical triumph for the United States. By 1962, the Soviet Union had scored a number of space firsts, but it did not launch a communications satellite. As a first the United States and its allies, Telstar stood as a powerful symbol of the West's commitment to open societies. "It was only eight minutes long... had no stars, no script... it was one of the most important television broadcasts ever presented." -- Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
3. GAL108_171123_11.JPG: A huge horn antenna in Andover, Maine, tracked and communicated with Telstar as it passed overhead. Because of the satellite's highly elliptical and relatively low orbi9t, it could only relay communications for 20 to 30 minutes at a time.
4. GAL108_171123_17.JPG: An engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmde, New Jersey, assembles Telsar.
5. GAL108_171123_19.JPG: Media coverage of Telstar made it a sensation. The hit song "Telstar" by the Tornados became one of the first instrumental songs to reach radio's top-40 list. The song used a space-age synthesized sound of an organ.
6. GAL108_171123_22.JPG: In 1985, Live Aid was simulcast around the world from two locations using satellites. The benefit raised money to alleviate famine in Africa, using satellite communications to unite the world in a common cause in real time.
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