ocr: Satellites Early U.S. Early U.S.S.R. Communications Weather Navigation Surveillance Scientific Only two years after the first successful U.S. satellite. was placed, into orbit, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) approached NASA to launch. a communications satellite: The. original Telstar, launched in July, 1962,was. the tirst satellite designed and built by. a private organization. Telstar 1 was, a product of AT&T's Bell Telephone Laboratory -
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