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Originally Posted by Fibori
Okay... Maybe I'm confused.. But what is the Telstar?
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It was also the first trans-Atlantic communications satellite, launched in 1963, I believe. It could handle a whopping 100 phone calls at once. It was knocked out after a few weeks due to exposure to harmful radiation, that aerospace engineers did not know about at the time.
Okay, I'm a fountain of useless information.