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THE LAST PICTURES - A SPACE-BOUND PORTRAIT OF HUMANITY Since NASA's 1963 launch of "Syncom 2," the first geosynchronous communications satellite, humans have been slowly constructing a ring around our home planet. Unlike the dust and ice around Saturn, our ring consists of machines. Of more than 800 geosynchronous satellites that have been launched, many have been neglected or powered down once their purpose was served. Because of their altitude of 36,000 km, they will remain locked in orbit around the Earth until the Sun reaches its red giant stage and engulfs our home planet some 4.5 billion years from now. Artist and geographer Trevor Paglen believes these dead spacecraft to be humanity's most enduring artifact.
On Jul 26, 1963, Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite is launched.
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Syncom 2 - the 1st geosynchronous satellite, 1963
Celebrating Syncom: The pioneering communications satellite
Its name may not be as familiar as Sputnik's, but that doesn't mean the Syncom communications satellite deserve no celebrations on its 50th anniversary.
In fact, it was Sputnik that inspired one of Syncom's creators, Harold Rosen, in the first place. Rosen, then a student at Caltech, watched the Soviet satellite streaking across the sky as he brainstormed:
What he imagined by 1959 was a revolution in communications: an extremely lightweight, solar-powered telephone switching station in orbit 22,000 miles above Earth. In those days, an international telephone connection required making a reservation because the existing system — copper cables and radio signals — carried few calls. Many countries could not be called at all. A satellite could change all of that.
Just think - without the successful launch of Syncom on July 26, 1963, the quick rise of international television signals, electronic credit card authorizations and countless other innovations would be completely different.
And what once was a single 78-pound satellite has turned into more than 500 descendants currently orbiting the Earth, some of which weigh more than 13,000 pounds.
Read more on Syncom's history our latest Column One story,
Photos: Ricardo DeAratanha, Armand Emamdjomeh / Los Angeles Times, Boeing