{"id":14401,"date":"2017-12-14T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/relay-i-launched-4\/"},"modified":"2017-12-14T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T23:16:00","slug":"relay-i-launched-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/relay-i-launched-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Relay I Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/relay_1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4046]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4047\" alt=\"relay_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/e1f34__relay_1-300x218.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/e1f34__relay_1-300x218.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/relay_1-1024x745.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/relay_1.jpg 1183w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>December 13, 1962<\/p>\n<p>NASA launches the active repeater communication satellite <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Relay_1#Relay_1\" target=\"_blank\">Relay I<\/a> from Cape Canaveral. One of the earliest communication satellites to be launched, <a href=\"http:\/\/nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/nmc\/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1962-068A\" target=\"_blank\">Relay I&#8217;s mission was primarily experimental<\/a>, but it nonetheless was used for some notable events. On November 22, 1963 Relay I was the first satellite to broadcast television from the United States to Japan, which happened to be the announcement of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It was then used in August of 1964 to broadcast the 1964 Summer Olympics from Japan to Europe and the United States, relaying the signal with another satellite, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syncom_3\" target=\"_blank\">Syncom 3<\/a>. It was the first time two satellites were used in tandem for a television broadcast. Relay I was used until February 10, 1965, when a problem with its power system caused the satellite to become non-functional.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/12\/13\/relay-i-launched\/\">Relay I Launched<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/12\/13\/relay-i-launched\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 13, 1962 NASA launches the active repeater communication satellite Relay I from Cape Canaveral. One of the earliest communication satellites to be launched, Relay I&#8217;s mission was primarily experimental, but it nonetheless was used for some notable events. On November 22, 1963 Relay I was the first satellite to broadcast television from the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[1523,2950],"class_list":["post-14401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-launched","tag-relay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}