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What was the name of the first US communications satellite?

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What was the name of the first US communications satellite?

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Telstar was the first active communications satellite (launched in 1962), and the first satellite designed to transmit telephone and high-speed data communications. Its name is used to this day for a number of television broadcasting satellites.