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Syncom I

Launched from Cape Canaveral on February 14, 1963, Syncom I became the first test of a communications satellite in geosynchronous orbit. The satellite transmitted one 2-way telephone or sixteen 1-way teletype messages.

 

New Mexico Museum of Space History; Alamagordo, New Mexico, USA; read all about it in the scientific tourist #69.

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