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   Telstar

   Launched by NASA aboard a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral on July 10, 1962, Telstar was the first privately sponsored space launch.
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   Communications satellite

   NASA launched an Echo satellite in 1960; the 100-foot aluminized PET film balloon served as a passive reflector for radio communications. ... Telstar satellite
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   Sea Launch

   Although Sea Launch is currently the world's only ocean-based space launch company, the idea is not unique: in 1964–1988 the University of Rome La Sapienza in Italy and NASA launched spacecraft from the San Marco platform off the coast of Kenya and Shtil' rockets have been used to orbit payloads launched from submarines. ... | June 28, 2004 | Telstar-18 | 4.8 t | launch anomaly | 14 |
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   Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

   (NASA) ... Redstone, Jupiter, Pershing, Polaris, Thor, Atlas, Titan and Minuteman missiles were all tested from the site, the Thor becoming the basis for the expendable launch vehicle (ELV) Delta rocket, which launched Telstar 1 in July 1962.
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   NASA Astronaut Group 8

   STS-51-G Discovery — June 1985 — Mission specialist — Arabsat-1B, Morelos 1, and Telstar 3D satellite deployment mission ... ↑ NASA (January 2005).
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   1999 in spaceflight

   | 15 February 05:12 GMT | Proton-K | LC-81, Baikonur | ILS | Telstar 6 | Telstar | Geosynchronous | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful So Far | | ... NASA
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   2008 in spaceflight

   | 21 December | Zenit-3SLB | LC-45/1, Baikonur | Land Launch | Telstar 11N | Telesat | Planned: GSO | Comsat | | | | ... NASA SpaceFlight.com
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   Space Race

   1962: Telstar: the first "active" communications satellite (experimental transoceanic) ... | March 7, 1962 | First orbital solar observatory | USA-NASA | OSO-1 |
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   1994 in spaceflight

   | ODERACS A | NASA | LEO | Laser calibration | 2 October 1994 | Successful | Deployed from Discovery on 9 February | ... ↑ SAT-ND - Failures - Telstar 402
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    1993 in spaceflight

    | December 16, 00:38 GMT | Atlas IIAS | LC-36B, Cape Canaveral | General Dynamics | Telstar 401 | AT&T | GSO | Comsat | Still in orbit | Successful so far | Maiden flight of Atlas IIAS | ... NASA

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• 1993 in spaceflight