The story of how the Bell System, in cooperation with NASA, developed the Telstar satellite and participated in the launch and the subsequent successful transmission of signals to and from the ...

Within a few years, the Telstar satellite was launched ... Another radio astronomer came to Bell Labs in 1962 with the same idea. Robert Wilson (b. 1936) had also used masers to amplify weak ...

And in 1962, inspired by the launch of an AT&T communications satellite, Meek recorded the Tornados playing “Telstar,” an instrumental that he’d written, which topped charts on both sides of ...