[DOC] [TLE] Telstar - Wikipedia [PAR] Telstar is the name of various communications satellites. The first two Telstar 
satellites were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 launched on top of a 
Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962. It successfully relayed through space the first 
television pictures, telephone calls, and fax images, ... Its dimensions were 
limited by what would fit on one of NASA's Delta rockets. [DOC] [TLE] Telstar: Satellites Beamed First TV Signals Across the Ocean [PAR] Feb 12, 2013 ... Telstar was launched by NASA on July 10, 1962, from Cape ... Although the 
Telstar satellites could only show events for 18 minutes at a time as ... The space 
age dawned with the launch of Sputnik 1, Earth's first artificial satellite, in 1957. ... 
The satellite was also equipped to handle telephone calls and even... [DOC] [TLE] COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITES, TECHNOLOGY OF [PAR] On 10 July 1962, NASA launched the first non-government-built satellite, .... a 
satellite-receiving ground station that could handle up to 600 phone calls 
simultaneously. ... The early satellites had one television channel, weighed less 
than 100 ...... The compression process involves representing video signals by a 
series of... [DOC] [TLE] X-38 Crew Return Vehicle Finds New Home | NASA [PAR] One of NASA's three X-38 Crew Return Vehicle technology demonstrators that 
flew at ... This is the seventh call NASA has issued for space technology research 
... and retrieve up to 10 samples without the aid of certain Earth-based 
technologies. ...... Telstar 1 was the first satellite capable of relaying television 
signals from... [DOC] [TLE] New Challenges in Space: CQR [PAR] Jul 23, 1999 ... A Titan IV rocket carrying a $700 million government spy satellite explodes ... 
Aseries of recent launch failures has rocked the U.S. space program, casting .... 
in clusters, or constellations, to handle traffic on cellular phone and paging ... 
One possible scenario would find the space agency leasing the new... [DOC] [TLE] NASA Facts Project Relay - Scribd [PAR] Relay is the first space communications experiment designed to link three ... 
Relay is but one of several experimental ... a series of microwave towers spaced 
about 30 miles apart on land can relay ... a single television broadcast, 12 
simultaneous two-way telephone calls, .... (DOD Project) July 10, 1962Telstar 
launched. [DOC] [TLE] satellite communications - an overview - ResearchGate [PAR] The successful launching of communications satellite in earth's orbit was .... The 
first fully active satellite was Courier launched into an orbit of 600 - 700 mile, by ... 
In July 1962 AT&T's active satellite Telstar was developed and launched. ... 
Telephone & Television signals were transmitted to Europe, South America and. [DOC] [TLE] This Day in Tech History | On This Day . . . | Page 22 [PAR] Jul 17, 2013 ... On the night of July 1617, 1850, Whipple and Bond made the first 
daguerreotype ... John Adams Whipple (September 10, 1822  April 10, 1891)
was an ..... As well, it could only carry 600 phone calls and one black-and-white 
TV ... A Thor/Delta 316 launches with the Telstar 1 satellite from Cape Canaveral. [DOC] [TLE] Wellsville Daily Reporter from Wellsville, New York  Page 1 [PAR] Wellsville Daily Reporter (Wellsville, New York), Tuesday, July 10, 1962, Page ... 
He suggested that one of these would be the final test of the spring and summer 
series. .... Serve As Trans-Atlantic Relay Point Telstar Rocket Launched Today "
TV. ... <AP> A "switchboard" satellite rocketed into orbit today as a possible first
... [DOC] [TLE] 1945-2010: 65 Years of Satellite History from Early Visions to Latest ... [PAR] peoples everyday life  receiving TV and radio; providing essential .... amplify the 
received signal and retransmit it to the ground. ... one satellite in synchronous 
orbit, where it would appear to remain stationary at one location. .... Civilian. 
Launch Date. (1st in series). Military. Telstar. July 1962. --- ..... deliver the call to a 
user. [DOC] [TLE]

Question: Launched July 10, 1962, the first satellite in this series could handle up to 600 phone calls or 1 TV signal at once!
Answer: Telstar