Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
The horn antenna inside the radome at Andover, part of the first satellite communications system.
The Telstar satellite, launched in July 1962, sent and received communications signals to that were picked up by the Earth Station in Andover and similar stations in Pleumeur-Bodou, France, and Goonhilly Downs, England.
The system enabled the first live television transmissions across the Atlantic and later transmitted telephone signals as well.
About This Item
- Title: Horn antenna, Andover, 1962
- Creator: American Telephone & Telegraph Company
- Creation Date: 1962
- Subject Date: 1962
- Location: Andover, Oxford County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 15.9 cm x 24.2 cm
- Local Code: Photographs -- Andover
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Antennas, Horn
- Comsat station (Andover, Me.)--Photographs
- Earth stations (Satellite telecommunication)
- Project Telstar
- Radomes--Maine--Andover
- Telecommunications industry--Maine--Andover--Photographs
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x230
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