Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
At the time of this photograph, Sept. 17, 1980, this Comsat station rose 160 feet high and operated the first commercial communications satellite (Telstar) in 1962.
It took more than 1,200 gallons of special white paint to re-cover this station.
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About This Item
- Title: Comsat radome receiver station, Andover, 1980
- Creator: United Press International
- Creation Date: 1980-09-17
- Subject Date: 1980-09-17
- Location: Andover, Oxford County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 26 cm x 21 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1880, Box 3/3
- Collection: United Press International collection
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Comsat station (Andover, Me.)--Photographs
- Earth stations (Satellite telecommunication)
- Project Telstar
- Radomes--Maine--Andover
- Telecommunications industry--Maine--Andover--Photographs
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