Telstar

[ tel-stahr ]

/ ˈtɛlˌstɑr /

Trademark.

one of an early series of privately financed, low-orbit, active communications satellites, the first of which was launched July 10, 1962.

one of a later series of privately financed, geosynchronous communications satellites that provide domestic television, telephone, and data exchange transmission to the U.S.

Example sentences from the Web for telstar

I hung about ten or fifteen feet from Telstar Three and maybe eighty feet from Nelly, drifting slowly from both.

The Trouble with Telstar |John Berryman
Fancy electronic equipment consists of millions of parts, and Telstar is no exception.

The Trouble with Telstar |John Berryman
I used a little more blast and let a couple minutes go by while I drifted closer to the Telstar.

The Trouble with Telstar |John Berryman
After about a hundred hours of use in Telstar One, it failed.

The Trouble with Telstar |John Berryman

"When Telstar One packed up, they sent me down the whole gate from that sector," I said.

The Trouble with Telstar |John Berryman

British Dictionary definitions for telstar

Telstar

/ (ˈtɛlˌstɑː) /

noun

either of two low-altitude active communications satellites launched in 1962 and 1963 by the US and used in the transmission of television programmes, telephone messages, etc

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Telstar

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British Dictionary definitions for telstar

noun