Syncom (for "synchronous communication satellite") started as a 1961 NASA program for active geosynchronous communication satellites, all of which were...
21 KB (2,187 words) - 06:32, 29 September 2024
geostationary satellites was the Hughes Aircraft Company's Syncom 2, launched on 26 July 1963. Syncom 2 was the first communications satellite in a geosynchronous...
50 KB (5,949 words) - 15:01, 26 October 2024
contracted to begin building the real satellite. They lost Syncom 1 to electronics failure, but Syncom 2 was successfully placed into a geosynchronous orbit...
49 KB (4,861 words) - 12:14, 29 October 2024
three commercial communications satellites and retrieve and repair the Syncom IV-3 (Leasat-3) satellite, which had been deployed during the STS-51-D mission...
11 KB (715 words) - 16:54, 1 September 2024
from orbit two other communications satellites. The Canadian Anik D2 and Syncom IV-1 satellites were both successfully deployed by the crew of Discovery...
12 KB (1,118 words) - 20:58, 23 September 2024
launch of the Syncom 2 NASA program, allowing him to phone for President Kennedy from the USNS Kingsport docked at Lagos Harbor via the SYNCOM satellite on...
32 KB (3,097 words) - 17:29, 8 October 2024
four years earlier. The games were telecast to the United States using Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, and from there to Europe...
72 KB (4,495 words) - 19:39, 27 October 2024
Division built the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom, in 1963 and followed by the first geosynchronous weather satellite, ATS-1...
35 KB (3,523 words) - 05:23, 24 August 2024
helicopters TH-55 OH-6 MH-6 Defender AH-64 Communications satellites Intelsat I Syncom TDRS GOES Spacecraft Surveyor 1 Pioneer Venus Avionics /Fire control Hughes...
33 KB (3,314 words) - 19:59, 13 September 2024
communication was developed in the 1960s by NASA, which launched Syncom 1–3 satellites. Syncom 3 transmitted live coverage of the 1964 Olympics in Japan to...
13 KB (1,650 words) - 20:45, 23 October 2024
contracted to begin building the working satellite. They lost Syncom 1 to electronics failure, but Syncom 2 was successfully placed into a geosynchronous orbit...
33 KB (3,183 words) - 15:36, 22 August 2024
geosynchronous communication satellite, Syncom 2, was launched on 26 July 1963. The subsequent first geostationary Syncom 3, orbiting near the International...
72 KB (8,069 words) - 22:09, 31 October 2024
of the launches carried communications satellites, including Syncom-1 and Syncom-2. Syncom-1 was intended to be the first satellite to be placed into a...
6 KB (334 words) - 11:35, 22 June 2024
were developed. 1963 – The first geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom 2, is launched. 1963 – First transpacific satellite broadcast via the Relay...
149 KB (17,151 words) - 17:30, 1 November 2024
from the US to Japan. The first geosynchronous communication satellite, Syncom 2, was launched on 26 July 1963. The world's first commercial communications...
165 KB (18,545 words) - 23:24, 18 October 2024
helicopters TH-55 OH-6 MH-6 Defender AH-64 Communications satellites Intelsat I Syncom TDRS GOES Spacecraft Surveyor 1 Pioneer Venus Avionics /Fire control Hughes...
18 KB (1,990 words) - 18:46, 8 October 2024
(T-AG-164). The ship was sent to Lagos, Nigeria as the control station for Syncom 2 becoming the site of the first two way call by satellite by heads of state...
23 KB (2,056 words) - 21:22, 19 September 2024
Relay units (from RCA), and two Syncom units (from the Hughes Aircraft Company) had operated successfully in space. Syncom 2 was the first geosynchronous...
28 KB (2,369 words) - 10:02, 19 September 2024
helicopters TH-55 OH-6 MH-6 Defender AH-64 Communications satellites Intelsat I Syncom TDRS GOES Spacecraft Surveyor 1 Pioneer Venus Avionics /Fire control Hughes...
29 KB (3,795 words) - 20:01, 1 August 2024
shuttle crew deployed two communications satellites: Telesat-I (Anik C1) and Syncom IV-3 (also known as Leasat-3); both were Hughes-built satellites. Telesat-I...
12 KB (925 words) - 02:51, 24 August 2024
1962 with Telstar 1, transmitting TV signals across the Atlantic Ocean. Syncom 3 expanded possibilities in 1964, broadcasting the Olympics. NASA's TIROS...
29 KB (2,720 words) - 07:00, 29 September 2024
helicopters TH-55 OH-6 MH-6 Defender AH-64 Communications satellites Intelsat I Syncom TDRS GOES Spacecraft Surveyor 1 Pioneer Venus Avionics /Fire control Hughes...
20 KB (1,943 words) - 11:57, 11 September 2024
117 kg (255,994 lb) The primary objectives of the mission were to deploy the Syncom IV-F5 military communications satellite (also known as Leasat 5), and to...
13 KB (1,132 words) - 01:41, 22 September 2024
Satcom was one of the early geostationary satellites; the first were the Syncom series, in 1964. The first Satcom satellite, Satcom 1, was launched on 13...
8 KB (612 words) - 09:38, 23 July 2024
which is where most of the Live After Death live album was recorded. The Syncom sign refers to the 1961 NASA program of the same name. The neon sign above...
32 KB (3,407 words) - 09:09, 17 October 2024
helicopters TH-55 OH-6 MH-6 Defender AH-64 Communications satellites Intelsat I Syncom TDRS GOES Spacecraft Surveyor 1 Pioneer Venus Avionics /Fire control Hughes...
178 KB (16,192 words) - 04:16, 5 November 2024
13 February 1963. Pad 17B. Syncom 1; Thiokol Corporation Star-13B solid rocket as apogee motor. 20. 26 July 1963. Syncom 2; geosynchronous orbit, but...
20 KB (3,372 words) - 22:44, 9 October 2024
helicopters TH-55 OH-6 MH-6 Defender AH-64 Communications satellites Intelsat I Syncom TDRS GOES Spacecraft Surveyor 1 Pioneer Venus Avionics /Fire control Hughes...
26 KB (2,932 words) - 17:12, 2 November 2024
Systems) for COMSAT, which activated it on June 28, 1965. It was based on the Syncom series of satellites that Hughes had previously built for NASA to demonstrate...
6 KB (427 words) - 02:27, 2 April 2024
RCA-designed TWT transponder used for transmitting RF signals to Earth stations. Syncom 2 was successfully launched into geosynchronous orbit on July 26, 1963,...
21 KB (2,487 words) - 19:48, 14 September 2024