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4 unusual facts about Telstar


Adidas Telstar

The name came from the Telstar communications satellite, which was roughly spherical and dotted with solar panels, somewhat similar in appearance to the football.

John S. Mayo

Following this, Mayo joined Bell Labs, now Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, (1955) where he first worked on early computers as the Triadic and Leprechaun, the Telstar satellite, ocean sonar systems and various switching systems.

Johnny Callison

A small segment of the game was featured that day in the first transatlantic television broadcast via the Telstar satellite, which had been launched thirteen days earlier.

Maurice Ligeon

He is listed as playing the 1997-1998 season with Dutch Second Division club Telstar.


Bill Haley's Chicks

The Mummies, 1990, Rekkids; Never Been Caught album, Telstar, 2002

Ford Motor Company of New Zealand

A wagon version of the Telstar was eventually offered in New Zealand, based on Mazda's GV platform - in fact New Zealand was the only country outside Japan where this body style was available.

Ford Motor Company Philippines

In the late 1970`s and early 1980`s, the company introduced the Laser, Telstar, Econovan and Courier into the local market.

Ford Sierra

Relative rejection of the Telstar forced Ford to import completely built-up (CBU) premium models built in Genk, Belgium from 1990: the Sierra 2.0 GLX Wagon, the Sierra Sapphire 2.0 Ghia and the XR4×4 were part of this range.

Ford Telstar

In New Zealand, the Telstar, like the Laser, was assembled locally from 1983 (replacing the highly successful Cortina range) at Ford's original Seaview plant near Lower Hutt and later at the Ford/Mazda joint venture plant in Wiri, Auckland, called Vehicle Assemblers of New Zealand (VANZ).

Los Mustang

In 1963 they released four EPs, featuring the sound effects instrumental Telstar from The Tornados.

Operation Fishbowl

The Starfish Prime radiation belt persisted at high altitude for many months and damaged the United States satellites Ariel, Traac, Transit 4B, Injun I and Telstar I.

Robert Briskman

Briskman was responsible for Indonesia’s domestic satellite system Palapa, Mexico’s Morelos, Arabsat, and Italsat programs, as well as for providing support to the Inmarsat, Intelsat, STC (Direct broadcast), Telstar-3, Alascom, Satcol, Unisat, Intelmet, Nordsat, Chinasat, and Cameroon programs.

Robin Lane

She co-wrote the song "Wishing On Telstar" for the 1991 Susanna Hoffs album When You're a Boy.

Telstar 12

Telstar 12, previously known as Orion 2, is a Canadian communications satellite which is operated by Telesat.


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