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Frontiers July 2016 Issue

83 Syncom The world’s first geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom was created by a Harold Rosen–led team at Hughes Space and Communications and began a communications revolution that has had an enduring impact around the world. Syncom II was launched by Hughes, a Boeing heritage company, and NASA on July 26, 1963, and enabled the first live international phone call between two heads of state, President John F. Kennedy and Nigeria’s prime minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. In 1964, Syncom II and Syncom III made possible the first live TV transmission by satellite, broadcasting Tokyo’s Olympic Games to the United States. •


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