• Syncom (for "synchronous communication satellite") started as a 1961 NASA program for active geosynchronous communication satellites, all of which were...
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    contracted to begin building the real satellite. They lost Syncom 1 to electronics failure, but Syncom 2 was successfully placed into a geosynchronous orbit...
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    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...
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  • that designed and built the first geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom, for Hughes Aircraft Company. Harold Allen Rosen was born on March 20, 1926...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Division built the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom, followed by the first geosynchronous weather satellite, ATS-1, in 1966...
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    contracted to begin building the working satellite. They lost Syncom 1 to electronics failure, but Syncom 2 was successfully placed into a geosynchronous orbit...
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    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...
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    Relay units (from RCA), and two Syncom units (from the Hughes Aircraft Company) had operated successfully in space. Syncom 2 was the first geosynchronous...
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  • Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) leaves 1,800 dead. NASA launches Syncom 2, the world's first geostationary (synchronous) satellite. July 30 – The...
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    (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...
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    geosynchronous communication satellite, Syncom 2, was launched on 26 July 1963. The subsequent first geostationary Syncom 3, orbiting near the International...
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    from the US to Japan. The first geosynchronous communication satellite, Syncom 2, was launched on 26 July 1963. The world's first commercial communications...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • has established the synthesis and communication platform Helmholtz SynCom. SynCom brings together scientific knowledge and connects science, society,...
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    four years earlier. The games were telecast to the United States using Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, and from there to Europe...
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    from orbit two other communications satellites. The Canadian Anik D2 and Syncom IV-1 satellites were both successfully deployed by the crew of Discovery...
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    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...
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    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...
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    1962 with Telstar 1, transmitting TV signals across the Atlantic Ocean. Syncom 3 expanded possibilities in 1964, broadcasting the Olympics. NASA's TIROS...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    (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...
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    Syncom 2. It was launched on a Delta rocket B booster from Cape Canaveral July 26, 1963. The first geostationary communication satellite was Syncom 3...
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