1962-07-10 USA Project Telstar

Telstar 1 was launched by NASA on July 10, 1962, aboard a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, marking the first privately sponsored space launch. The satellite successfully transmitted the first television images, telephone calls, and telegraph messages through space, as well as the first live transatlantic television broadcast. Although Telstar 1 is no longer operational, it continues to orbit the Earth.