Articles about Telstar

The BBC looks back at a momentous year for technology and broadcasting

A detailed, technical exploration of the Telstar satellite from 1962

Will it ever be possible to exchange television across the Atlantic? Bell Laboratories have a plan to lay a cable in 1955

The first geostationary satellite linking Europe and North America goes into service in 1965

Pete Singleton remembers his personal 1964

Sir Hugh Carleton Greene’s valedictory message to the BBC and the audience after he was pushed out as Director-General in late 1968

The development of intercontinental satellite television