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Telstar and Fifty Years of Connectivity (2012-2013)

History of Physics Newsletter
Volume: 44, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 3

Publication Date: 2012-2013
Edition Details: http://www.aip.org/history/newsletter/winter2012/telstar.html
Language: English

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Science and culture Broadcasting, radio and television Satellites, artificial Science and technology, relationships 20th century, late United States United States. National Air and Space Museum Bell Telephone Laboratories

This morning, without a second thought, people around the world checked their email on some smart phone, or watched a live TV broadcast on some news channel from someplace where the Sun sets when it is rising here. Our daily lives and worldwide commerce depend on and are utterly shaped by hundreds of satellites. Couldn't we always see hurricanes from above? Couldn't we always conduct business around the clock? Didn't we always have GPS direction guidance? Couldn't we always measure radiation and electromagnetic fields in space and anticipate the possible effects of solar events on our lives and our technologies? Satellites enhance the senses of the human race, and they link us ever more inextricably together. More than fifty years ago, on July 10, 1962, the United States launched Telstar, the first active-communications satellite. Last July, a celebration of the anniversary brought together a number of scientists, engineers, and others involved in this achievement at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories. (See the synopsis video on You- Tube.) One of the authors of this article, Louis Lanzerotti, joined Bell Laboratories in 1965 because he was attracted by the opportunity to analyze Telstar data and to work on the design and implementation of a Bell Laboratories radiation detection instrument. This device would be incorporated in the first NASA test communications satellite at geosynchronous orbit, ATS-1, launched in December 1966.

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