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NASA announced first television experiments via SYNCOM II communications satellite had been conducted. Test pattern signals sent Sept. 23 were followed by TV ... of good quality. Transmissions originated at Fort Dix, N.J., ground station, were sent to SYNCOM II 22,300 mi. above the earth, and retransmitted to AT&T ground station at Andover ...

... experiments. . . The Syncom maneuver was comparable to the feat of RANGER VII in flying to within 6 miles of its target on the Moon. "Having completed our experiments with Syncoms II and III, we are turning them over to the Department of Defense. . . . If required, full-time communications could be provided between the United States and southeast Asia by Syncom III ...

... announced SYNCOM II communications satellite, now drifting westward over Atlantic Ocean at 22,800-mi. altitude, would be stopped when it reached desired position at 55° west longitude. At this location SYNCOM II would ...

Voice and teletype messages exchanged via SYNCOM II communications satellite between ground station at Paso Robles, Calif., and communications ship Kingsport in Lagos ... ., greatest surface distance ever spanned between two points on earth via a communications satellite. ''(NASA "SYNCOM II Fact Sheet"; N.Y. Herald Trib., 8/10/63)'' Senate passed NASA authorization bill (H ...

NASA announced SYNCOM II communications satellite achieved perfection of orbit probably unparalleled by any other previous satellite. At more ... .09 sec. shorter than mean sidereal day. Virtually stationary over 55th meridian of west longitude, SYNCOM II is drifting. eastward so slowly that it would take nearly a month to move a ...

... SYNCOM II and RELAY I linked Rio de Janeiro and La­os, Nigeria, in 20-min. voice ... first three-continent telephone conversation. Signal began from USNS Kingsport in Lagos harbor, then to SYNCOM II , which sent it to Lakehurst, N.J., ground station, then by overland wire to Nutley ...

... . ''(A&AE, December 1963, 91)'' A solar array characteristics test was run on the orbiting SYNCOM II synchronous-orbit communications satellite. The test (on Nov. 22) found a power loss of 20 ... cells during four months in orbit. The text confirmed the desirability of changing the next Syncom satellite - Syncom C - from p/n cells with .006 in. quartz cover slides to n/p ...

... 1965. ''(NASA LAR III/159)'' NASA announced Syncom C communications satellite would be assisted into proper orbit later this month by its sister satellite Syncom II , which would provide a reliable relay point in space for communications between ground stations and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA Syncom Project Officer H. N ...

NASA announced it had completed its experimental research and development program with SYNCOM II and SYNCOM III and would transfer operation of the synchronous satellites to DOD, starting Jan. 1, 1965. ... significant telemetry and ranging data. Communications ground stations used to relay transmissions via the two Syncoms had been furnished by DOD for the past two years. ''(NASA Release 65-5; DOD ...

... ; NAA S&ID Skywriter, 11/11/66, 1, 2)'' ComSatCorp conducted test transmissions via INTELSAT II-A ("LANI BIRD") comsat, launched by NASA Oct. 27, which included: first live color programs ... be tremendous.. . ." ''(A&A, 11/66, 112-116)'' DOD was successfully using SYNCOM II comsat 12 hrs. daily and SYNCOM III comsat 22 hrs. daily for military communications across the Pacific, Technology Week ...

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