People on earth may take for granted today's high-teach world of cell phones,GPS and the satellites high above the planet that make instant communication possible But it all began 50 years ago with one giant space ballon.10 July 1962 marked the birth of satellite communications.On this day the Telstar Satellite Commenced its journey into space and became the first ever active communications satellite. It carried the first live trans Atlantic TV broadcasts.Telstar was built by a team at Bell telephone Laboratories in USA and incorporated many innovations such as the transistor and the 3600 solar panels that powered the satellite.Today we use satellites for GPS,TV,radio,weather, tracking,space exploration and global communication, among others things.
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