When Was The First TV Satellite Signal? - Connected Life

Children all over the world watch cartons that come from satellite signals. On April 24th, 1962, scientists working for . and the U.S. Air Force successfully bounced television signals off the Echo I satellite. The signal was sent from an . lab in California and was picked up in Massachusetts, 2,700 miles away. The TV signal simply consisted of the word “.,“ written in block letters.