High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Telstar is the name of various communications satellites, including the first ever such satellite able to relay television signals. The first two Telstar satellites were experimental and nearly identical. "Telstar 1" was launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962. It successfully relayed through space the first television pictures, telephone calls, fax images and provided the first live transatlantic television feed. "Telstar 2" was launched May 7, 1963. According to the US Space Objects Registry, Telstar 1 and 2 were still in orbit as of May 2010. Experiments continued, and by 1964, two Telstars, two Relay units (from RCA), and two Syncom units (from the Hughes Aircraft Company) had operated successfully in space. Syncom 2 was the first geosynchronous satellite and its successor, Syncom 3, broadcast pictures from the 1964 Summer Olympics. The first commercial geosynchronous satellite was Intelsat I ("Early Bird") launched in 1965.

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