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By Carlos Yépez and Pablo Ansón
Telstar: The first commercial satellite, Telstar 1 launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962. The satellite successfully relayed through space the first television pictures, telephone calls, and telegraph images, and provided the first live transatlantic television feed.
The Tornados was an instrumental group that made a song called Telstar related to the satellite. You will hear this song in the Blecua Musical-
Related song: The Tornados (the first British hit in the USA)
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