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Orbiting Next-Gen Technology: The Women Behind Boeing's MexSat Satellite [Amperes: Current Affairs from Around the World]

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In July 1963, Syncom, the globe's 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It had been a month before Martin Luther King, Jr.'s march on Washington, D.C. Twenty-six-year-recent Russian Valentina Tereshkova had just become the first woman to travel in area. The satellite, wanting one thing like a table lamp with its conical base and shimmering shade, was employed in the first live 2-manner satellite decision between heads of government when U.S. President John F. Kennedy telephoned Nigerian Prime Minister Abubakar Balewa.