Name: 電視上太空的那一天 (The Day Television Went To Space)
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They were broadcast to the world live by satellite.

But this technical feat that we take for granted

In fact, the entire era can be traced back

to July 10th, 1962, the day TV went global.

Live TV could only be transmitted by cables

And both methods were impractical over very long distances.

a radical idea had been proposed in scientific circles.

What if an object could be put into outer space

bouncing signals from one point on Earth to another?

At the time, no manmade object had actually been in space,

In the late 1950s, hundreds of engineers and scientists

at AT&T Bell Laboratories were put to work

The first active communication satellite in space.

By today's standards, the design was rudimentary

and consumed less power than the average modern laptop.

featuring then-new technologies such as solar cells,

transistors, and a telemetry system for collecting data.

No less impressive was the ground equipment needed to track,

transmit, and receive signals from the Telstar satellite.

Massive yet exceptionally precise satellite dishes

were constructed on both side of the Atlantic Ocean

in order to capture and amplify Telstar's faint signal

as it whizzed and bobbed through its elliptical orbit.

Telstar One was launched atop a Thor-Delta rocket

from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida,

the same site from which the Apollo 11 astronauts

a feat that would be broadcast live to the entire world,

thanks in part to Telstar's groundbreaking achievement.

Armstrong is on the moon, Neil Armstrong.

between U.S. Vice President Lyndon Johnson

and the Chairman of AT&T, which had funded the project.

You're coming through nicely, Mister Cap-ul.

a 20 minute multi-national program was broadcast to hundreds

of millions of viewers in Europe and the Americas.

Soon we'll be saying good evening to Europe

between the television networks of the United States

Let's give all the baseball fans in Europe

Remarks by U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

I understand that part of today's press conference

is being relayed by the Telstar communication satellite

of the extraordinary world in which we live.

Putting another bit of history behind it,

Telstar will now rest for two and a half hours

while its solar batteries build up energy for another epic.

as a monumental achievement, became a sort

of high-tech celebrity, praised by politicians, journalists,

and scientists, and referenced widely in popular culture.

Live by satellite soon became a regular feature

on network television, for everything from breaking news.

With the ever-present shadow of the Cold War looming large,

Telstar also marked a rare early victory in the Space Race

for the United States, which by that point had been beaten

by the Soviet Union with the first satellite in space,

the first animal in space, and the first man in space.

Unfortunately, the first Telstar satellite was damaged

by residual radiation from a thermo-nuclear bomb test

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