Word: syncom
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...built the incredibly . successful Telstar communications satellite, but Goddard men launched it, and NASA's rich experience with space electronics made its triumph possible. Other communications satellites are even now in the works, including Relay, a joint NASA-RCA project that will be launched late this year, and Syncom, which will be placed in orbit 22,300 miles above the earth. Any one of these systems, or a combination, may eventually handle the bulk of the world's long-distance communications. These complicated communications satellites may soon become the biggest kind of commercial business, justifying in dollars...