" BEHIND THE SCENES WITH TELSTAR " 1962 BELL TELEPHONE PROMO FILM COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE 53164
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This color educational film is the story of how the Bell Telephone System, in cooperation with NASA, developed the Telstar Satellite and participated in the launch and transmissions of signals to and from Earth and space. Copyright 1962.
Opening titles: Bell System - Behind the Scenes With Telstar (:08). Andover, ME, July 9, 1962 - telephone drive their the lonely hills of Andover (:51). Men work in a control room in Andover Control (1:34). Bell Labs and long line people man the control room (1:55). Holmdel, NJ - men do their part to asset those in Maine (2:28). In France, another antenna beneath a dome waits; In Cornwall, England, they wait as well (3:14). Cape Canaveral, FL - Telstar satellite to launch (3:41). Men in a control room (4:09). Telstar on top of a Thor-Delta rocket, ready to launch (4:51). Launch is set for 3:45am (6:00). Back in 1954 at the Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ where engineers and scientists discussed (6:33). Antennas around the country receive signals that are flashed from point to point (6:54). Satellite in space (animation) makes towers connect more practically (7:25). Andover, ME, telephone service man works (7:49). Man with a chainsaw takes down some trees (8:17). Logging trucks move out wood (9:00). Andover Earth Station being built in 1961 (9:50). Foundation is being laid out (10:10). Dome is made to protect antenna (10:38). Some parts built in New Jersey were brought up to Maine (10:54). Ray dome built with special material so signals wouldn't get blocked (11:30). Control building and the dome (12:17). Telstar Project Director Gene O'Neill speaks about the project as inside the dome is shown (12:28). Hillside, NJ plant - construction of Telstar satellite by engineers (14:18). Solar cells (15:29). Telstar models (15:40). Tests performed on the satellite (16:25). Telstar satellite arrives in Cape Canaveral, FL (16:50). Satellite is checked and many tests are performed on it (17:36). Douglas puts its booster rocket onto the launch pad (17:55). Telstar satellite is carefully placed onto a third stage booster and then tested in a spin cycle (18:33). Telstar control (19:30). Telstar satellite is moved carefully (19:44). Satellite is put in position by multiple men atop the launch pad (20:21). Men walk around and tour Cape Canaveral (21:09). Cables are attached for another check (22:10). Careful hands work on the Telstar (22:24). A clamshell seal is placed onto the Telstar (22:44). Telstar is mated with a Delta rocket (23:00). Rocket is on the launchpad (23:34). Countdown will begin as men in the control rooms are ready, doing final checks (23:47). All systems are go (24:28). Countdown (24:43). Rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, FL (24:52). Control room monitors the progress (25:28). Men in Andover will take over and work with the satellite (26:18). Andover is on target (27:37). Newsmen and photographers are watching as the men wait for Telstar to work (28:00). In Washington, D.C., people watch on closed circuit TV, includes Vice President of the United States Lyndon Johnson, along with Senators and Congressmen and some people from the FCC (28:18). Fred Capel from the Andover, ME Earth Station contacts the Vice President via telephone, done due to the Telstar satellite (29:10). Image of the American flag sent into space and back again (31:10). Men are happy that France received the Flag video (31:32). First fax transmission (31:50). Senators of Illinois/Oklahoma speak (32:29). FCC Chairman Newtown Minnow speaks from Andover (33:00). Jim Fisk, president of the laboratories speaks (33:47). Television images (34:39). First international telephone call (35:00). President of the United States John F. Kennedy has his press conference seen overseas via the Telstar (35:09). Andover Earth Station (35:41). Board Chairman Fred Capel speaks (35:50). End credits (36:56).
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As a former Bell Labs employee, this brought a tear to my eye. The death knell was sounded in 1984 and, now, the nation's premier research and development organization is but a memory.
Technically Bell Labs still exists. Its just now owned by Nokia.
Ronald Reaganzap.
So many things, that were done here in the United States, many years ago have been sent out to other places in the world 🌎🌍... That is something, which has become a reality... We need to know, how to stay competitive with other places in the world with what we do for a living, in order to survive these rapidly changing times...
@@Vector_Ze We've been plagued by Reaganomics for 42 unbroken years. Not one day of respite from neoliberal, aka predatory, economics. Not one day of respite from neocon, aka belligerent, foreign policy.
A foundation evolved
33:15 What the FCC Chairman was addressing was the stressful time of the tenuous relationship and competition between the USSR and the western world known as the Cold War. Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) was on everyone's thoughts.
I am 62 yrs old. Someone of my same age but in 1962 would have been alive for the inventions of the automobile; powered, controllable flight; the theories of relativity; two world wars; the development of the transistor; commercial airline travel; rocketry; the jet age; manned descent to the deepest part of the ocean (over 36,000 feet deep, Marianas Trench); development of nuclear power; breaking the sound barrier; manned space flight; vaccine for polio; magnetic tape; and then the successful launch of a satellite. The call for putting a man on the moon within the decade had already been made. Incredible achievements within the span of less than a lifetime.
I want to bring back this style of narration just for a few years to confuse future generations.
I remember seeing this movie in school a long time ago yet today I forget what I walked into a room for.
LOL right there with ya, bro
I clearly remember when Telstar was launched, and how TV broadcasts would have “Via Telstar” on the bottom of the screen
@Club Retro and what will be soon know as the most faked history in all generations of Human existence... Golf clap...
@@lettersandnumbersuc What do you mean faked? Are you a flat earth person?
@@lettersandnumbersuc Better than the clap you have between your legs.
@@Cleveland.Ironman Yes Ironman, another one of those. 😣
The Earth is flat it’s all a lie you sleeping fool
Just two years later, the horn in Holmdel, NJ would be cleaned of bird droppings and then be used to accidentally discover the radiation from the Cosmic Microwave Background. Quite a piece of history.
Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille at Ohio State has interesting counter arguments regarding the CMB and the work of Penzias and Wilson. Whether he is right or wrong, I cannot say. But it is still very interesting.
That must have been one massive cotton bud 😂
Satellite communication....something we now take for granted...thanks to the pioneers.
Actually space x is fixing the short sidedness.. global coms will be a problem of the past with the starlink program
@@jaybrooks1098 Thankfully, SpaceX will probably die when Musk is gone. His little, short lived pieces of junk are polluting the sky for astronomers.
Most of our modern communications is being handled by fibre cable. Goonhilly in UK has found a new life with space X sending back those great pictures and starlink backhaul. Recently the original has been brought out of mothballs as a radio telescope due to its size and build.
Satellite communication, made obsolete by a fiber optic cable laid across the equater which everyone has forgotten is our only source of communication except for a struggling Starlink internet network as our only real source of a backup, built by a Canadian from South Africa born in the heart of apartheid, the infamous Elon Musk who struggles everyday to get any recognition by an American govt who cant even acknowledge he exists let alone praise him because hes African & Canadian & more popular among Americans than they are. He has done more for Americans than our government has done for us by just one single person in my lifetime. Its a disgrace the snot nose stuck up mentality Boomers democrat or republican treat him as. Its most unfortunate he wasn't born on our soil because he could probably lead better than any politician can. The least Biden & old time astronauts can do is deliver him the respect he deserves for doing more for the space program and more to combat climate change than anything our govt has done or Congress can even agree upon in the same period. Y'all treat him like an illegal alien with your silence a total lack of respect in which any other time period in our nation more respect was given to men of such accomplishments. It's embarrassing to watch our President snub the man who single handedly did more for his "climate change cause" because he could, & did, but snubbing him at a "climate change summit" at the White House inviting Ford & GM who have done NOTHING, inviting the losers to this circus act snubbing the real winner like some damn monarch Queen who we expect to snub, but not our President. While at the same time allowing immigrants to illegally enter but snubbing that particular immigrant certainly cost my vote.
What do you think "satellites" are used for?
Another monumental technological achievement can be seen @31:06. The Ampex VR-1000, the World's First Videotape Recorder, was just six years old and had revolutionized television broadcasting around the World. This was truly a magnificent period in Our American History. What a tremendous success story.
Alexander Matwejewitsch Ponjatow Excellence. Founded by a Russian after an American stole German superior audio tape machines, which were so advanced Bill Crosby made the thief main engineer at Ampex and gave them 50k$.
Technically the UK's VERA prototypes came before that but the Ampex was far more widely used/reliable and frankly easier to use and helped bring manufacturers together to agree on universal media formats. The VERA was not really perfected until several years after Ampex as far as a finished product to market goes. Either way it all added up to better things.
Yes, my dad had got a reel to reel Ampex around 1966 for the local govt place we were at, camera/vcr for teaching film studio tech; I worked in the 80s fixing vcrs, tvs etc by the 90s there wasnt enough business to stay afloat, cheap systems, more features. Then the vcr went away completely such a shame. Got good at fixing and diagnosing problems. But it started with the big machines and innovation right
I was in third grade and we were so excited about Telstar. A cool name, being shot into space. Crazy.
Only satellite with it's own theme song, appropriately called "Telstar" by the Tornadoes, right here on CZcams... OL J R :)
Such an exciting time. We take for granted what was impossible a few years ago. Sadly, our children only learn our mistakes, not our achievements. America won't survive unless we teach them to love their home and respect each other. This climate of hate and division must end.
I fear that it won't end until the conclusion of the coming civil war. I'm glad I'm old.
Concur
4:00 a probably 59 VW and a Dodge Lancer!!
We let Marxism in through the back door and now the rot is deep
They are taught by media on both sides to hate the other. The media, all of them have learned that their viewership and profits go up when it's a grudge match. The news used to be facts, now its opinion, both on the left and right. Children and people are taught to hate people they have never met.
This should be a part of the AT&T Archives. They got their own films on this pioneer in the communications industry.
⁵tt the ttd5 it to by
I was 6. I didn’t know it yet but this was about to be the most exciting time to grow up. So much has happened and been discovered.
I was born years later, but even I can see that wonderful technological advancements happened here. Also, note something else not heard so much: how absolutely well spoken, and clear in his speech, the narrator is. In fact, the sound quality of this entire film is top notch even today. We've had satellites for decades now, but we just don't see this kind of quality in innovation and effort any more. Back then, people just got the job done. Today, everything is mired in Political Correctness. If we could have modern tech and bygone effort, we could LITERALLY reach the stars and beyond!
This film, old as it is, makes me believe in America once again. Oh, and love the music esp the synthesized music at the beginning.
This should be required viewing in schools
What? Space "going commercial" has made this the most exciting time for advances in space travel/tech since the 60's. Multiple space agencies are routinely launching probes, satellites, and the most ambitious sample return missions _ever_ to distant moons, asteroids, Mars, and beyond and our moon is about to become a testbed for genuine long term habitation and industry in space. -- If you can't find something to "believe in" about the ambition of today's STEM _(generally, not just in space)_ I think it's just because you're looking in the wrong places...
@@llYossarian I totally agree it's very exciting! I love what's happening today. It's just that all the PC BS is slowing us down still. I love just thinking of all the spinoff tech that came, and will be coming in the future. Yes I was just looking at places and being disappointed, which is so easy these days. Also, I hope Elon Musk taking over Twitter starts a better era of free speech in all social media, as other platforms (youtube, facebook, at, al) see users going to better"better" platforms, and therefore be forced to follow suit or become meaningless. Peace everyone!
Oh, btw I wrote a deliberately simplistic article (still many pages long) on how we could park one of the oblong asteroids I've heard that are coming to close approach to Earth into High Earth orbit above the USA and turn it into a City in Space, called A City in Space could be a Very Nice Place. Not sure if I should publish or show here. Working on one about colonizing Mars too
@@GinoACosta
I know just what you're saying.. How much more we could accomplish without having to walk on eggshells & choose our words so not to offend anyone.
We've got the vinyl record that that was made as a celebration of this launch. I remember my dad playing it alot over the years.
The Telstar theme song was a hit. Still gives me goosebumps.
Ironically, the first few stanzas were used as the intro & outro of NET (National Educational TV) programs in the 60's. 📡
That air conditioned truck was later used to ship Coors beer from Colorado to Houston. for the Apollo celebration.
This truly was an achievement. You could get baseball games in Chicago all the way from St Louis! You could actually get news from different cities and around the world. The world didn’t change, but communication changed forever. Not really sure things are better.
"transmitting over a thousand words a minute"
Not bad in '62.
My wife's Grandfather was very heavily involved in Goonhilly and Telstar he is shown at 34 49 21
Great to see that Goonhilly is back in use. In fact it backhaul starlink and if you listen to most of the space X launches you will hear Goonhilly called out. So the legacy goes on.
@@Electronics-Rocks Its amazing to realise that the dish he designed is still in use and functional. Interesting fact at the time there were only 2 KG of I think liquid hydrogen in the world, he got one of them to reduce the SN ratio
One of my favorite remote areas is near the Telstar ground station in northern Maine. It is huge. The technology in those days required huge antennas.
The dish used to track Telstar in Goonhilly in the UK was mothballed when everything went through fibre but recently being converted to radio telescope due to its size.
@@Electronics-Rocks neat.
I remember when TV transmissions started being beamed via TELSTAR. We watched things that weren’t interesting in themselves, rather, just for the novelty of seeing live broadcasts from far away! Now, we take this for granted, being able to livestream online from anywhere in the world with internet.
I Remember as a child visiting the Telestar "hearing"cone" in Andover Maine.
Me too, Charles. My uncle worked there.
This is the beginning of the satelite ran world we have today. Every aspect of our communication and GPS are satelite generated. Amazing stuff really .
Not EVERY aspect. You must be one of those people that think their cell phone connects to satellites.
Telstar failed in orbit very prematurely due to radiation effects from the Operation Dominic nuclear tests, especially the high altitude shots of Starfish Prime and Bluegill Triple Prime launched from Johnston Atoll.
But on the plus side, we learned EMP was a thing!
Yes, one of the last things President Kennedy did was to Authorize and sign a check to Bell to pay for Telstar.
We Nuked by accident.
(There was a desire to keep it out of court, EMP was a secret)
@@timmak1914 Damn, no kidding!
@Paul Mathews Don't buy into the Feat Mongering. It's all being choreographed to keep sheeple scared into submission.
@@MM22966 Not so much EMP as it was creating an artificial radiation belt. When satellites, like Telstar, flew through the field of charged particles, they disrupted the electronics, rendering the satellites useless. We found out the theory worked, - the hard way. (The concept was to use these fields of particles as a shield to disable incoming Russian warheads.)
If you understand electronics and satellites and rocketry - this is like Christmas morning. I want MORE! LOTS more!
Amazing. Everything these men were doing at 2:43 and most of the equipment in that room can be done today on a chip smaller than a fingernail.
I live in maine near this area. I just looked it up and was disappointed to find its all gone. They took it all down in the 80s and returned the land to nature!
I was a young kid when Telestar went up. It was a 4eally, big deal everyone was talking about it even my teachers. The Ventures had a hit wit"h a instrumental hit with a piece named "Telestar"
The original song Telstar is by The Tornadoes.
@@alicewolfson4423 thanks for the correction, I should have thought to double check my memory after almost 60 years
@Kirk Morrison The Ventures also did Telstar
I was 10 when the Tornadoes hit top 40. The electronic part was so wild for back then.
@@alicewolfson4423 Yes, I still enjoy as much by either as I did back then. It is still beautiful
@@kirkmorrison6131 So true.
This is one of many of the outstanding documentaries produced by commercial firms like AT&T for public distribution, but it was the shorter film TELSTAR that was listed in AT&T's free-loan service catalog.
This was interesting and great to watch.
I was born in 1954.
The optimism expressed was very commendable.
I knew Telstar as a satellite which brought international television live .
Antenna @2:33 led to Nobel prize for Penzias and Wilson for discovery of cosmic background radiation.
Absolutely fascinating! I've heard of Telstar for decades, but, never really knew what it was exactly. Thanks Peri for posting this gem!
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I live in Maine. When I was a kid we went to see the Telstar antenna in Andover Maine. We went inside and they showed us around. We even got a pamphlet with a piece of the material they used to build the inflatable dome. Now the antenna is gone and nature reclaimed the land and a forest is there now.
Oh no Gerry. Nature has not reclaimed the land and it’s all forest now. Although the dome is gone and replaced by smaller pieces of technology, it is still there and people are working there. As a matter of fact, last I knew they were going to expand and add to it.
@@donnalibby6246 That's what I was reading from Wiki. Can you still tour around the site?
@@gerrymichaud3851 I’m not sure if you can or not. I’m guessing “no” because there is a locked gate at the entrance.
@@donnalibby6246 Thanks. I may still take a ride up there just to see the area again
In the mid-80s, the horn antenna, radome, and visitors’ center were torn down. More powerful satellites meant smaller and less sensitive antennas could be used. Verizon now owns the site and uses it as part of their communications network.
Thanks Periscope for restoring this important film.
I was 11 days old on 09 July 1962!
I remember as late as the 1980s that satellite communications were considered a wonder. TV shows would proudly prefix an interview with "live by satellite". And there was that delay that sort of made it even more exciting for some reason. By the early 90s it had just become another way to communicate, and now with the internet, the physical means of communication are totally abstracted; you don't know how your FaceTime or Whatsapp get to the other end. It would never have been possible without endeavours like Telstar.
@0:15 That's one of the biggest FM horns I've ever seen. The wavelength must be massive. Back in the day I worked on mostly 18GHz-10GHz MW systems, over 20years ago. It's crazy to see how far these systems have come. What was the return loss, system loss and free space loss they were trying to overcome with something like that?!
I retired from working at a gateway earth station. We used 6 G up and 4 G down. When I left they were putting in KU band equipment for 30 GHz. They even use a fan on the feed to blow water off it because rain affects it.
@@Chris_at_Home 6g Haarp ?
That is the Andover Earth Station in the mountains of western Maine.
The wavelength was on the order of a few centimeters. The horns were that huge because the downlink signal was so weak. They needed a large aperture to capture it.
@@johnopalko5223 So they needed the large dish to boost the gain on a weak power transmitter.
TELSTAR I and II are still up there orbiting the earth although they don't work any more.
I was also born in 1962, and I don't work any more either! 😂😂😂
A couple of years ago I ran across an article about a comms satellite developed by a U.S./Canadian team and launched in the mid-1960s. In discussing that with a friend who works in the DOD, he mentioned he knows of that satellite and they had written a new code to reactivate it. The satellite had turned itself off in the late 1960s but now they had the technology to reactivate it. I forget the name of the satellite.
@biyukia A medal for WHAT???
@JZ's Best Friend Probably!
still for about the next 200 years if there is no technology in the future to remove the astro-garbage.
A record of a time long ago about things for which few today are thankful. Sad.
Well put, sir.
Great win for science and technology.
Thankyou. Respect
This was an exciting time.
I'll tell what is exciting... Watching Portland burn on a nightly basis because of their weak leadership.
I live in Andover. I was 15 at the time. The earth station for communication by satellite it was called. This literally put Andover on the road maps (it was not there before). Masses of people came to see the satellite antenna. It was definitely an exciting time for this town. My dad, Alliston Meisner, owned the Andover Telephone Company at the time and they were not impressed with our old crank phone telephone system. Eventually they installed a special dial to our switchboard so we could dial out their phone calls. Calls had to go through a hub in Lewiston. Andover did not get a dial phone system until 1967. Although the huge antenna has been replaced with newer technology the site still exists and there are people working there. Last I knew they were expanding the site.
What amazing insight. I bet your dad had some interesting stories too tell of this time. Thanks for sharing.
We keep up with that on our weekly reader in grade school
Loved Weekly Reader .
I can remember when you never saw anything live unless it was a local tv station. The films of the action would be shown later, often as time fillers in the theatre.
Modest beginnings, transfer of 1000 words per minute :D
"This is N E T.........the National Education Television Network. "
Yep, that opening sound sequence at 0:32. Anyone know where that came from? Part of an actual piece or something created just for N E T? Haunting sound that instantly takes you back nearly 60 years.
How were the able to accomplish such technical feats without sensitivity training?
By consistently offending people obviously.
What if they mis-gendered someone?? They'd have to scrub the mission..
Awesome video. I am 37 and love videos like this. Nowadays we have Starlink.
Dear Periscope, I'm very disappointed to find that your commercial ads for Spam Blocker are constantly interrupted by a Telstar satellite video.
Then get an ad blocker sheesh
You have CZcams Premium?
The original print is in my collection and its a treat to project it on a large screen with no interruptions! If you are in NJ, you're welcome to come over and see it.
For better or for worse.... When I pass a bus stop with 15 children, none of whom are talking to each other and all are just staring at their cell phones... I know it's for the worse.
One of my personal favorites,I like casting this on large screens and going retro.
Fantastic how they eliminated time delay in those days !
What delay? The satellite apogee was 3,000 miles at its highest and 600 miles at its lowest. Calling from ME to DC would have a delay of about 1/30 of a second (33 milliseconds +\-) at most.
@@executivesteps so why do they claim 11 seconds of delay now then ? :)
@@executivesteps You can not have it both ways sonny :) Space travel is impossible and they claim to have EXPLODING bolts to remove booster engines ! so anyone thinking space travel is real has seriously been indoctrinated to the extreme !
@@moonshiner2977 Who claims that? It's not even that to the moon and return. You may be mistaken.
@@SMHman666 What kind of demented answer is that ! ! ! ! errrrrm nasa claims there is a delay as was the case of the frictional moonlanding footage ! Even to the moon there shouldn't be a noticable delay but for some daft reason, probably to excite peoples imagination they claimed there was an 8 second delay, you simply can't argue about that or deny it as anyone that followed the space events will confirm that what I state about their claims of time delay are undeniable ! I agree with you as far as the maths are concerned and that is why among a dozen other reasons I know space travel is fake.
"This is Andover - We have your phone bill, Honeville." "Roger ! We're ready for your handover, Andover."
One of the major events, for the world 🌍🌎 to be able to quickly communicate with each other.... This must have been an amazing thing back then.... Some 60 years ago.... Let us now hope that this type of technology, can continue to be used , for the good of all people, wherever they are, and whenever they can be reached... And let those who use this kind of technology for selfish gain know, that they too can be recognized by all people, that their glory - can be fleeting.
I was a little kid first all telstar I thought the solar cells were windows and I imagined that there were men in lab coats with headsets standing behind councils relaying messages from one country to another like old time telephone operators.
Really amazing achievement
Yeah, that was one heck of a con-job.
@@lettersandnumbersuc what do you mean?
@@Cleveland.Ironman Prolific whatever is proof that Neanderthal DNA sometimes still dominates. Pay him no mind.
@@Cleveland.Ironman
He means he's jealous of the meaningless life he has lead
@2:45 basically when a husband goes to adjust his thermostat by one degree.
During the "energy crisis" Sneaking the thermostat over 68° was punishable by mom calling Nixon on us
4:21
Operation Paperclip 2.0
?
"The prototype for all ICBMs was the A9/10, a missile developed by Nazi Germany during World War II. The A9/10, which never advanced beyond the testing stage, was designed to attack American cities on the East Coast as part of "Projekt Amerika."
Although that weapon was never deployed it led directly to the development of the V-2 rocket, the first ballistic missile ever used in warfare. The man behind both the A9/10 and V-2 projects, Wernher von Braun, came to the United States following the war, when the both the Americans and Russians began scooping up useful German rocket scientists. Von Braun would play a central role in both the U.S. nuclear-weapons and space programs."
Thank the good Lord, we got him first to use his genius for the USA 🇺🇸
Just the most exciting time in history to be alive, i remember it well, as others here say we stand on the shoulder of giants of the past, the invention of the transistor only a few years earlier and put to immediate use to pioneer ultra fast world wide telecommunications, the sixties were truly awesome times, and with the stirring telstar sound track produced by joe meek and the ventures, great memories.
I was humming Telstar in my head the whole film!
I love satellites !
Me too when I was a kid in the 80s my aunt and uncle had a big C band satellite dish in their front yard
Excellent!
When I think of the telephone company, Lily Tomlin first comes to mind.
And that tells you exactly what happend to our society, most people can't think furthered than a TV Scit
“Hello. Is this the person to whom I am speaking?” Lilly Tomlin.
We're the phone company, we don't have to care.
One ringy dingy...
Two ringy dingies..
Wow, this was truly mind blowing. The whole thing, but When he said, This will pave the way for a future global communications network- if only they knew what we did since then. The first 60 Starlink satellites launched on May 23, 2019, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Absolutely epic. We sit here on our devices not thinking about the fact that we all came from the 50's and 60's where it (electronics and manufacturing technology, materials etc.) really started to take off and shape what we have today.
i love my telstar
What color is it?
A very educational episode of the launch of the satellite Telstar it took a lot of research and the people and all the equipment who are responsible for the launch of the Telstar satellite and there is a song named after the satellite Telstar sung by the tornadoes
well that was cool as hell.
“Again, the band, and the cables...” on the spin table... Which is where we will record it spinning like it was in space...
Honestly is this how your mind works ?
@@gowdsake7103 Um, yes.
It’s spin stabilized
@@gowdsake7103 The anonymity of the internet allows rubes like him to spread ignorance far and wide.
And big exciting front page newspaper stories
Was this sattelite damaged by that nuke in space? The Rainbow test, I think?
Amazing to see the assembling of Telstar and the rocket launcher. It was practically done by hand. Each piece lowered into place and then pulling out your Craftsman socket-wrench to tighten all the bolts into place!
I remember how ABC was able to use Telstar to carry part of the 64 Winter Olympics from Innsbruck Austria and what a big leap in technology it was to be able to do that. Today with thousands of miles of fiber optic cable laying on the ocean floor, there is actually less of need for trans oceanic satellites.
An entire building full of people and equipment to receive a satellite television signal
Nowadays small satellite dishes have sprouted on most houses like the old tv aerials of that time did.
I think it's hilarious how the rocket looks very similar to a modern electric toothbrush lol
Those microwave antennas looked creepy to me as a kid. Haven't seen one in a long time. There's one by Tropicana field in St Pete tho
Yo St. Pete gang gang
I always thought Telstar was rather big. :O
You are probably thinking of Echo. That was a balloon about the size of a football field, if I recall correctly. But it was literally a Mylar balloon, and had no electronics inside like Telstar did.
@@lwilton That sounds about right, thanks!
Ah ha ! So this is where Lucas got the idea for the Death Star !
It blows my little brain to realize that just 60yrs later, I am watching this video from space! (Thank you Elon Musk for making Starlink available in my remote N. Ontario location in Canada!!!) :)
In the UK starlink uses Goonhilly for the backhaul but not from the same dish that they tracked Telstar. The dish they used for Telstar was mothballed but now coming back in use as a radio astronomy.
Transmission speed of 1000 words a minute? Wow, that's almost 6 times faster than my mom could type.
the telestar looks like the Daleks special weapons dalek from a Dr Who story I think it was "The Daleks Masterplan"
Thank you for sharing these videos! I know this will seem odd but I captured a drifting object here in southern Nevada back on May 15, 2019. It looks a little like the profile of that globe sat. My first thought after review was that it resembled the profile of one of the Telstars. I know is odd but is it possible was drifting down because it reached its end? Idk but the capture is interesting. I have a recent upload of it if anyone wants to check it out. Again, thank you for sharing all these old gems 👍🙂
If you open your video-file in Adobe Audition, you can remove the high-pitched ringing sound with a few clicks (there are tons of quick and easy tutorials on CZcams that will show you precisely how to do this one simple task) and then save it for upload with a better sound-quality.
They think this model went to “space,” I doubt there going to understand Adobe...
@@lettersandnumbersuc no where in the Bible states the earth is flat.
And to think my ENT Doctor told me that I couldn't do anything about that ringing in my ears. I'm checking out Adobe!
Must be nice to be young and be able to hear those tones.
@@terrydavis8451 LOL!
I remember.
...and the Vice -President of the U.S. was so invested in the project that he didn't even manage to get the name of the Satellite correct (30'33).
The Telstar plans are not in the main computer.
No mention of Sputnik of course. Anyway, I just learned more about Telstar by at least ten times. That is after discounting The Ventures album cover. Go USA.
Just amazed by this generation of dedicated hard working people. I remember them. We just dont have this kind of culture in 2022, its everyone for themselves, not a cohesive America at all anymore. Schools are so bad, they interview 20 somethings who dont know where the oceans are, dont know the most basic questions because schools pass everyone, dont require students to work anymore, him/her/other; feelings are all that matter not real work? 😮
It lasted a whole year.
Ever had your ears pierced? Listen to the first 10 seconds of this vid and get your cherry popped.
I think we can assume the similarities between Telstar and the Death Star are not coincidence.
Wish they had more about how the satellite itself communicated and relayed information.
Sure does sound like Michael Rennie from the movie, The day the Earth Stood Still narrating this...
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Arthur C Clarke first came up with the idea of geo stationary satellites back in 1947 not Dr john Pierce in 1954. Thats why it is called the Clarkes belt.
Sixty years!
I can see where R2D2 got its design from.
although telstar no longer function both telstar one and two are still in orbit
That's fascinating, would be great those two satellites and bring back to Earth 🌎 for study.
@@JDAbelRN The documentary said that telstar is thousands of miles in space but really the Perigee altitude is 952 kilometers (592 mi) maybe elon musk could do it imagine having Telstar in your house
I love how they're reading off checklists. Now when you do a procedure, it's just a book you read, and tic a box. Someone may or may not be in room with you. Their way seems more fun.
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Watching this channel makes me realize I was born about 60 years to soon
FCC guy had the best speech. Only one not staged
And the only one really speaking from the heart, looking forwards to the future, instead of mindless nationalism
What is the weird mic that can be seen at 32:19 and 32:28? There's a hook around the person's neck, and it looks like it'd get in the way. Almost looks like a small mic attached to acrylic and the hook... but I can't figure out why it'd be like that.