Intelsat I (Early Bird) becomes the first commercial geostationary satellite

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1. Story
2. Launched in April 1965 and entering commercial service that summer, Early Bird provided the first continuous commercial telecommunications link across the Atlantic from geostationary orbit. Its capacity was tiny by any later standard — a few hundred telephone circuits or a single television channel, not both at once — but it established the product that would dominate commercial space revenue for the next half century: a fixed point in the sky that a ground antenna could be aimed at once and left alone.
3. Knowledge
4. Orbital shells as distinct economic regimes
5. Satellite communications
6. Intelsat I (Early Bird) becomes the first commercial geostationary satellite
7. Connections
8. Satellite communications
9. Orbital shells as distinct economic regimes
10. ITU spectrum and orbital-slot regulation
11. Earth observation
12. Low Earth orbit broadband constellations
13. Eutelsat OneWeb
14. Space insurance
15. The Communications Satellite Act creates a commercial satellite operator
16. Telstar 1 relays the first live transatlantic television
17. Intelsat I (Early Bird) becomes the first commercial geostationary satellite
18. A geostationary satellite antenna fails to deploy, triggering a record insurance year
19. Global navigation satellite systems
20. Low Earth orbit broadband constellations
21. Intelsat I (Early Bird) becomes the first commercial geostationary satellite
22. OneWeb completes its first-generation constellation
23. Evidence
24. Supports the periodisation of commercial space activity and the scale of the global space economy including government spending. V55 verification basis: not retrieved in this session — egress blocked and the search budget exhausted — so no total is quoted from it in this pack.