... signals back to Earth. The other communication satellites were launched in the follow years. Telstar 1, launched on July 10, 1962, by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was the first active satellite capable of transmitting telephone conversations, television pictures, and telephoto microwaves. Syncom 2, launched by NASA on July 26, 1963, was the first synchronous communication satellite, while Syncom 3, launched August 19 ... , 1964, relayed the first trans-Pacific television pictures. The Soviet Union's first communication satellite, Molniya 1A, launched in April 1965, was c...

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