Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
A photograph taken in February 1962 of the new Control Building and Radome that American Telephone and Telegraph Co. built in Andover.
On July 10, 1962, NASA launched AT&T’s Telstar, the world’s first active communications satellite. Telstar transmitted the first satellite television broadcasts, which were the first live television signals sent across the Atlantic.
About This Item
- Title: Satellite System Earth Station, Andover, 1962
- Creator: Carleton Greely
- Creation Date: 1962
- Subject Date: 1962
- Location: Andover, Oxford County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 19.3 cm x 24 cm
- Local Code: Photographs -- Andover
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Aerial photographs
- Comsat station (Andover, Me.)--Photographs
- Earth stations (Satellite telecommunication)
- Project Telstar
- Radomes--Maine--Andover
- Telecommunications industry--Maine--Andover--Photographs
For more information about this item, contact:
Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x230
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