Curious Droid's video: Telstar 1 - The Satellite That Changed the World

Get 50% off your first MEL science box using the Promo code: Droid50 here : https://melscience.com/sBJ7/ or use the QR code in the video. It might look like a a prototype for the Death Star but Telstar 1 started the satellite TV age that we now have with the 24/7 rolling news and sports from anywhere in the world, so in this video we look at the 1st privately funded communications satellite and how it changed the world. This video is sponsored by MEL Science Find out where Telstar 1 is now here : https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=340 Written, researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : Bell Labs, NASA, AT&T, N2YO.com And a big thanks go to all our Patreons :-) 0pgnrfK Eριχθόνιος JL Adriaan_von_Grobbe Alipasha Sadri Andrew SMITH Brian Kelly Cameron Elliot Carl Soderstrom Charles Thacker ChasingSol Citizen Battle Collin Copfer Daniel Davenport Dom Riccobene erik ahrsjo Etienne Dechamps Florian Muller George Bishop II Glenn Dickinson Henning Bitsch inunotaisho james t early Jesse Postier Jim Early Jonathan Jonathan Merage Jonathan Travers Ken Schwarz L D László Antal Leifur Thor Lorne Diebel Mark Heslop oldGhostbear Paul Freed Paul Gorlinsky Paul Hilscher Paul Shutler pizza smuggler Pu239 Samuel Finch SHAMIR stefan hufenbach Steve Ehrmann Steve J - LakeCountySpacePort Thales of Miletus Tim Alberstein Tomasz Leszczyński Will Lowe Music from the Youtube library Future Glider by Brian Bolger Looping Ascent by Joel Cummins