US-Japan Satellite Relay Broadcast and Apollo 11

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US-Japan Satellite Relay Broadcast and Apollo 11

1957	Soviet Union launches the world’s first artificial satellite Sputnik
1962	Communications satellite Telstar launched (successful satellite relay broadcasting experiment across the Atlantic Ocean) (November)
1963	US-Japan satellite relay broadcasting experiment across the Pacific Ocean using satellite relay (assassination of John F. Kennedy)
1964	Geostationary satellite Syncom 3 launched (around-the-clock broadcasting between US and Japan made possible)
1969	July Satellite relay broadcast of Apollo 11 and man’s first step on the Moon.

Mankind realized that the Earth is one place when the first astronaut Yuri Gagarin on seeing the Earth from space said simply, “the Earth is blue.” That we are all residents of the same planet is evident through satellite relay broadcasts that cross national borders and span continents. Two dramatic proofs of this fact were the shocking news of the assassination of John. F. Kennedy in 1963 and the broadcast from the Moon in 1969.

1969 600 Million Viewers Around the World Share the Experience of Mankind’s Landing on the Moon

First US-Japan Satellite Relay Broadcast: Assassination of President J. F. Kennedy
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite Sputnik, successfully positioning it in earth orbit. This event precipitated the space race, with the United States and the Soviet Union as the principal participants.
The first full-scale communications satellite Telstar, equipped with transmitting and receiving systems, was launched on July 10, 1962 (the spherical satellite’s weight was only 77 kg and it had an 85-cm diameter ). On the same day occurred a cross-continent TV relay broadcast from the United States, across the Atlantic Ocean, to earth stations in France and Britain. In 1963, the news of the assassination of President J. F. Kennedy, carried by the first cross-Pacific TV satellite relay broadcast from the United States to Japan, was reported to the Japanese public almost simultaneously with reports in the U.S. by using Telstar. With this shocking news report, the Japanese people recognized the arrival of a new era, one in which events happening throughout the world could be instantly reported to people everywhere. This period was followed by the full-scale satellite communications era, beginning with the launch of a geostationary satellite into an orbit 36,000 km above the equator. The geostationary satellite Syncom 3, launched over the Pacific Ocean in 1964, allowed free around-the-clock satellite relay broadcasting between the United States and Japan. The Tokyo Olympic games were broadcast worldwide by using the Syncom 3 satellite.

600 Million Viewers Around the World Share the Experience of Mankind’s Landing on the Moon
On July 21, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, and its captain, Neil Armstrong, realized a long-held dream of mankind, to stand on the Moon. The image of this historical event was captured with an ultra-small black-and-white TV camera for broadcast around the world. It is estimated that over 600 million people simultaneously heard Armstrong’s words “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” It was a global experience made possible by the TV medium. Today, people cannot help but realize we all are traveling together on “Spaceship Earth.”

1. News and important events prove ability of TV
2. The world in the living room
3. TV receiving contracts exceed 10 million

Satellite Relay (NASA)

Assassination of J.F. Kennedy relay broadcast on Nov. 23, 1963 (satellite relay)

Relay broadcasting process using satellite relay

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