Polar projection of the globe for Apollo 11 splashdown

Feb. 26 An estimated 500 million viewers in 49 countries will see the Apollo 11 splashdown, July 24, on television. Through a complex network of satellites, ground stations and landlines shown on the polar projection of the globe, the live colorcast travels along multiple paths totalling about one-third of a million miles to reach the 1000 television stations expected to carry the event. The broadcast from Western Union International's uniquely portable TV transmitter aboard the USS Hornet is beamed to a commercial global satellite, Intelsat III-F-4, 22, 300 miles above the Pacific ocean. The signal from this satellite can be received by permanent earth stations in Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand, and at Jamesburg, California. The Jamesburg reception is sent by landline to New York City where it is distributed to the ABC, CBS, and NBC Networks. It is also sent by landline from New York to NASA Manned Space Flight headquarters in Houston, Texas, and to an earth station at Etam, West Virginia. The Etam station beams its signal to another commercial global satellite, Intelsat III F-5, over the Atlantic Ocean for pickup at earth stations in Panama, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Peru and Goonhilly Downs, England. The latter station sends the signal to Europe by the landlines of the European Broadcast Union

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