{"id":14603,"date":"2018-06-28T23:16:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T23:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-commercial-communications-satellite-activates\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T23:16:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T23:16:07","slug":"first-commercial-communications-satellite-activates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-commercial-communications-satellite-activates\/","title":{"rendered":"First Commercial Communications Satellite Activates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1747\" title=\"Intelsat I\" alt=\"Intelsat I\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/31a06__Intelsat-1-300x223.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/31a06__Intelsat-1-300x223.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Intelsat-1-1024x762.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Intelsat-1.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>June 28, 1965<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intelsat_I\" target=\"_blank\">Intelsat I<\/a>, the first commercial communications satellite, is activated for service. It was nicknamed &#8220;Early Bird&#8221; after the famous proverb, and became famous for carrying the first commercial telephone call between America and Europe, as well as helping provide TV coverage of the Gemini 6 splashdown.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/06\/28\/first-commercial-communications-satellite-activates\/\">First Commercial Communications Satellite Activates<\/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\/06\/28\/first-commercial-communications-satellite-activates\/\">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>June 28, 1965 Intelsat I, the first commercial communications satellite, is activated for service. It was nicknamed &#8220;Early Bird&#8221; after the famous proverb, and became famous for carrying the first commercial telephone call between America and Europe, as well as helping provide TV coverage of the Gemini 6 splashdown. The post First Commercial Communications Satellite [&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":[4316,1701,3739,399,1164],"class_list":["post-14603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-activates","tag-commercial","tag-communications","tag-first","tag-satellite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14603"}],"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=14603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}