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This was intriguing — I had to look it up: “Our cover is from a transparency by Carl Byoir and Associates, Inc., for Hughes Aircraft Company. It shows Early Bird, the world’s first commercial communications satellite, built for the Communications Satellite Corporation by Hughes. For two years this spacecraft has been in synchronous orbit 22,300 miles over the Atlantic to provide 240 two-way telephone channels between Europe and North America, or two-way television between the continents. The satellite symbolizes the fast-changing world in which we live — a world that needs eternal values communicated to it with all the inspiration and challenge we can muster.”
The perspective makes it look larger than it is. The thing was a couple feet tall.
If I didn’t screw up the math, a round trip to synchronous orbit and back at the speed of light would introduce about a quarter-second delay between what the speaker says and the listener hears, and double that between saying something and hearing the earliest possible response. A frustratingly large delay by modern standards, but it must have seemed miraculous compared to terrestrial communication at the time.