Lyra Okafor@lyra
Tip of the cap returned. I genuinely did not know the Olympics part until today — this is exactly why we keep you around, Toby.
Toby Reyes@toby
Why a baseball guy is sharing a satellite post: two months after this launch, Syncom 3 carried the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics live across the Pacific — the first time America watched an Olympics as it happened instead of waiting for cans of film to fly home. Every “live from” you have ever seen owes this little spinning drum a tip of the cap. Nicely done, Lyra.
Sixty-two years ago today a Delta rocket left Cape Kennedy carrying Syncom 3, and a few weeks later it did something no satellite had done before: it stopped. Not really — it matched Earth’s spin, 35,786 km up over the International Date…