Man do I ever wish for those glory days again when the media cared about this countries achievements and acted as though it stood for something positive and worthwhile. Americans must have felt very proud of themselves.
@flashfast2000 nowadays, people just yell things such as "NO YOU COMMUNIST SOCIALIST EVIL DICTATOR REPTILIAN OVERLORDS" and "YOU STUPID IGNORANT DEMOCRATIC NAZI GO BACK TO MOTHER RUSSIA" until the US just decides to drop the project altogether. then they try again in secret. and the whole yelling process starts over.
@flashfast2000 But you don't see that anymore! The media now cares about sports, entertainment & the like! I sure wish we could go back to those days when the media cared about real news!
Thank you for posting this. My dad worked on the development of this satellite, and I recall visiting Andover, ME as a young child...fond memories of a great accomplishment.
I recently visited the Andover site. Sadly, the dome is no longer there, though you can tell a very large structure once stood. There are, on the other hand, 3 large sat. dishes in service up there to this day. It is currently owned by MCI and is not marked at all.
Hello. You may see one of the two remaining original models of the Telstar satellite in the Bell Laboratories museum at Alcatel-Lucent in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
Telstar 1 only lasted a little less than a year, since the radiation in the Van Allen Belt brought in by high-altitude US and Soviet nuclear tests were too much for the 170 pound satellite to bear. It went out of service on 21 Feb 1963, but according to the US Space Objects Registry, is still in orbit as of March 2008.
LOL i like how there isn't "crap" on television until Rupert Murdoch is involved. Get over yourselves neolibs, if Madonna could give viewers STDs over satellite she would
Actually, inside the weatherproof dome is the receiving horn. See 02:04 to 02:14.
Engineers kept getting noise no matter where they pointed the horn. They had discovered cosmic background microwave radiation. Evidence of The Big Bang!
"...could bring better understanding among among men", such optimism. Who would have thought the major impact of sattelites would be the enrichment of Rupert Murdoch selling crap television to the masses.
Andover!! The "Bubble" was torn down long before I was born though.
JeffreysShop 11 months ago
Man do I ever wish for those glory days again when the media cared about this countries achievements and acted as though it stood for something positive and worthwhile. Americans must have felt very proud of themselves.
flashfast2000 2 years ago 9
@flashfast2000 nowadays, people just yell things such as "NO YOU COMMUNIST SOCIALIST EVIL DICTATOR REPTILIAN OVERLORDS" and "YOU STUPID IGNORANT DEMOCRATIC NAZI GO BACK TO MOTHER RUSSIA" until the US just decides to drop the project altogether. then they try again in secret. and the whole yelling process starts over.
pieguyfry22 1 year ago
@pieguyfry22 Exactly!
flashfast2000 1 year ago
@flashfast2000 But you don't see that anymore! The media now cares about sports, entertainment & the like! I sure wish we could go back to those days when the media cared about real news!
kjchicago1 1 month ago
Thank you for posting this. My dad worked on the development of this satellite, and I recall visiting Andover, ME as a young child...fond memories of a great accomplishment.
jfitzwilliam 3 years ago
Where's this satellite now? does it is put to use?
peugteobike 3 years ago
Telstar 1 is still in orbit but stopped functioning in 1963
softnfurryone 3 years ago 3
@peugteobike floating around the planet taking up space, it's orbit won't deacay for another decade or so, it's at a very very low orbit
Rcrby525 2 years ago
wow your dad was lucky
kennerfreak7 2 years ago
I recently visited the Andover site. Sadly, the dome is no longer there, though you can tell a very large structure once stood. There are, on the other hand, 3 large sat. dishes in service up there to this day. It is currently owned by MCI and is not marked at all.
ffdewey17 3 years ago
Does this statellite still work
peugteobike 3 years ago
Hello. You may see one of the two remaining original models of the Telstar satellite in the Bell Laboratories museum at Alcatel-Lucent in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
TerraElektraMedia 3 years ago
Telstar 1 only lasted a little less than a year, since the radiation in the Van Allen Belt brought in by high-altitude US and Soviet nuclear tests were too much for the 170 pound satellite to bear. It went out of service on 21 Feb 1963, but according to the US Space Objects Registry, is still in orbit as of March 2008.
MrUnidyne 3 years ago
No, But Telstar Is Still In Orbit Today.
DgenerationX12345 3 years ago
This event really captured the imagination, although passe today to some people. What an anwwer to Sputnik!
vegasbuzzvideo 4 years ago
YAY ANDOVER!! I <3 Andover. Wooty Wooty!
Snapple411 4 years ago
LOL i like how there isn't "crap" on television until Rupert Murdoch is involved. Get over yourselves neolibs, if Madonna could give viewers STDs over satellite she would
fuzzplugjones 5 years ago
hahahahaha +1
fuzzplugjones 4 years ago
wow the first satellite dish was a shape of a sphere. amazing
DGarcia879 5 years ago
Actually, inside the weatherproof dome is the receiving horn. See 02:04 to 02:14.
Engineers kept getting noise no matter where they pointed the horn. They had discovered cosmic background microwave radiation. Evidence of The Big Bang!
jsl151850b 4 years ago 2
Only the first phone call is $50 Million.
HVACSoldier 5 years ago 2
"...could bring better understanding among among men", such optimism. Who would have thought the major impact of sattelites would be the enrichment of Rupert Murdoch selling crap television to the masses.
procrustesuk 5 years ago