Transatlantic TV Signal From V.S. Satellite

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29739, 5 February 1962, Page 3

Transatlantic TV Signal From V.S. Satellite

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WASHINGTON. Feb. 4 u e blB Best mas audience & ‘ s * or >’ » envisaged with tne development of transtelevision later this

Lrated states officials said ? satellite, due to be °u May wnuld gnk British. French, West German and United States television networks. attempt would be to flash back television . °£L froln a of up .0 3000 miles as the satellite circled the globe at 18.000 miles an hour.

. i y and Brasil would J° in the experiment. Officials said other satellites would be launched. Ttie experiments included two-

way telephone calls and also telegraphy. The first satellite would have an apogee of 600 to 3000 miles with a mean speed of 16.000 to 18.000 miles an hour. Its job would be to receive, amplify and retransmit television signals. Officials said this would be possible as the satellite swept over the Atlantic for periods of up to 35 minutes although some orbits would not be suitable to handle signals.

Ultimately, experts said, a chain of space satellites could give continuous television shows to the earth if present predictions were correct.

Officials said most of the communications experiments using the satellites would be technical.

But in the first launching at least one public demonstration of transatlantic television would be made, probably about a month after the firing date.

This would give persons separated by thousands of miles a glimpse of the same screen image.

The Europeans and Americans should get the same good viewing pictures from the space signals as they got from their home town stations.