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Postcard: Bell Telephone System's Earth Station at Andover, Maine

Bell Telephone System's Earth Station at Andover, Maine The station was built for Project Telstar experiments on overseas telephone and television service via satellites in space. The radome is the largest air-inflated structure in the world and is 161 feet high and 210 feet across. It is made of fabric and synthetic rubber and if laid flat on the ground would cover 3 acres. Color photo by Dick Smith; published by Bromley & Company, Boston, Mass; printed by Mike Roberts, Berkeley, California; modern chrome card #C14109 (ME1270), not postally used, dates from 1960s (the site became operational in the spring of 1962) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andover_Earth_Station

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Uploaded on April 22, 2012
Taken sometime in 1962