Satellite television C. Clarke proposed a worldwide communications system which would function by means of three satellites equally spaced apart in earth orbit. This was published in the October 1945 issue of the Wireless World magazine and won him the Franklin Institute's Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1963. The first public satellite television signals from Europe to North America were relayed via the Telstar satellite over the Atlantic ocean on 23 July 1962, although a test broadcast had taken place almost two weeks earlier on 11 July. The signals were received and broadcast in North American and European countries and watched by over
Sleeping Satellite Sleeping Satellite "Sleeping Satellite" was the debut single by the British singer songwriter Tasmin Archer, released in September 1992. The song was a number one hit in the United Kingdom, and was also an international hit. Although "Sleeping Satellite" was first released in 1992, Archer and her co-writers, John Beck and John Hughes, actually wrote and composed the song in the late 1980s. It was only when Archer got a record deal that the song saw the light of day. Four instruments were used in the recording of "Sleeping Satellite;" John Hughes and Robbie McIntosh played guitar, with John Beck