Image: Relay 1 antenna USA
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Description: Huge horn antenna at the AT&T Andover satellite ground station at Andover, Maine, USA, used to communicate with the first direct relay communications satellite, Telstar. Also used with the Relay 1 satellite. Built in 1961, it provided the first experimental satellite telephone and television service between North America and Europe.
Title: Relay 1 antenna USA
Credit: NASA
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