Telstar
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one of an early series of privately financed, low-orbit, active communications satellites, the first of which was launched July 10, 1962.
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one of a later series of privately financed, geosynchronous communications satellites that provide domestic television, telephone, and data exchange transmission to the U.S.
noun
Example Sentences
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Portions of Sir Winston Churchill’s funeral in 1965 were watched live, thanks to AT&T’s Telstar satellite.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
Mis-Teeq were in the middle of recording their third album when their label, Telstar, went bankrupt.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025
Players generally liked the Brazuca and Telstar 18, but some complained about the tendency of the Telstar 18 to pop easily.
From Scientific American • Nov. 19, 2022
Soto transferred to Norwich from Hannover in July 2020 and spent the first half of last season on loan to Telstar in the Dutch second tier, scoring seven goals in 12 league matches.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2022
I hung about ten or fifteen feet from Telstar Three and maybe eighty feet from Nelly, drifting slowly from both.
From The Trouble with Telstar by Schoenherr, John
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