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A look back at Nasa's first comms satellite
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It has been 50 years since the US sent aloft its first communications satellite. After all, this one shiny balloon opened the way to the vast array of much more advanced satellites that help enable so much of modern life.
The 12 August, 1960, launch of the Echo 1A was the first successful one for Nasa in its communications satellite programme, almost three years after the launch of Russia's Sputnik and 2.5 years after the US put its very first satellite, the Explorer 1, into orbit. Not long thereafter, according to the space agency, Echo allowed President Eisenhower to make the first voice communication via satellite.
This image shows the original Echo 1 balloon being inflated in 1958; its launch attempt in May 1960 was not successful. The Echo 1A now is commonly referred to as Echo 1.
Photo credit: Nasa Langley Research Center
NEWS
It has been 50 years since the US sent aloft its first communications satellite. After all, this one shiny balloon opened the way to the vast array of much more advanced satellites that help enable so much of modern life.
The 12 August, 1960, launch of the Echo 1A was the first successful one for Nasa in its communications satellite programme, almost three years after the launch of Russia's Sputnik and 2.5 years after the US put its very first satellite, the Explorer 1, into orbit. Not long thereafter, according to the space agency, Echo allowed President Eisenhower to make the first voice communication via satellite.
This image shows the original Echo 1 balloon being inflated in 1958; its launch attempt in May 1960 was not successful. The Echo 1A now is commonly referred to as Echo 1.
Photo credit: Nasa Langley Research Center