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Many satellites were developed and launched in the late 1950s and in the 1960s, for observation or spying...
After several trys ("Echo1",..) , in July 1962, NASA launched the first public telecommunications satellite "Telstar" and broadcast the first live television pictures across the Atlantic.
However its orbit was low and the ground stations could not maintain permanent contact.
