Word: comsat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many investors have apparently taken Rosen's advice about Comsat stock since it first went on the market last June, the price rose from 20 to a high of 66¼ this year...
...orbit in 1963, but an exploding tank of high-pressure nitrogen kept it from succeeding electronically. Syncom II and III, used by the Department of Defense, were successful, but their performance has been kept partially secret. Early Bird, the fourth of the series, was built and launched for Comsat, the private company that was created by Congress to set up a commercial communication-satellite system. In the Syncom family, Early Bird was the big, public success...
...some Comsat right away...
Monday, May 3 If all goes well, NBC will bounce Today (7-9 a.m.) off the Comsat satellite; CBS plans a news special on Viet Nam (1-2 p.m.) featuring a transatlantic discussion between Dean Rusk, Barry Goldwater, former Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart; ABC is scheduling a women's news show from London (2-3 p.m.). All three plan to incorporate Com sat into news broadcasts...
Sunday, May 2 EARLY BIRD SATELLITE BROADCAST (ABC, CBS, NBC, 1-2 p.m.). A three-network pool presentation of the first transatlantic television exchanges via Comsat Corp.'s new private-enterprise satellite, orbiting synchronously with the earth 22,242 miles above the South Atlantic...