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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...
...three-stage Douglas Delta rocket that rose above Cape Kennedy last week tossed its 85-lb. payload into a high elliptical orbit with neat precision. Early Bird, first satellite to be sent aloft by Comsat (Communications Satellite Corp.), climbed as high as 22,300 miles above the earth, then curved down as low as 776 miles. When this original orbit had been analyzed and Early Bird was at an apogee, a signal from the earth fired a small rocket motor to give just enough extra speed to put the satellite into a circular orbit that matched the earth...
Even before Early Bird reached its final station, it went to work. American Telephone & Telegraph's great horn antenna at Andover, Me., which is now leased by Comsat, sent a television test pattern up to the satellite. Back the pattern came to Andover, its quality so good that Siegfried H. Reiger, Comsat's technical vice president, proudly told a press conference: "The television capability of the Early Bird satellite is established...
...Comsat plans to station two more Early Birds over the Pacific and Indian oceans to cover the earth, but it is not about to count on synchronous satellites alone. It is also working on communications packages that will circle on lower orbits. They will have to be much more numerous, and ground stations will need a complicated system to keep track of their ever-changing positions, but there is a good chance that they may well prove more practical...