Telstar 1 launched

[Jim Eshelman]

July 10, 1962, 8:35 UT, Cape Canaveral

Telstar was the first telecommunications and broadcast satellite ever launched. Though the USSR was the first to launch a satellite into orbit with Sputnik, the U.S. was the first to launch into orbit a satellite for these purposes, which now are fundamental.

As with other space flight breakthroughs, the launch location can be expected to show technical parameters of the launch, while charts for Washington would show the national reaction.


First, the charts for Cape Canaveral. These charts, frankly, are quite terrible.

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.) Moon-Jupiter Moon-Neptune.

Year: Cansolar {-1}
Saturn on Asc 1°45'
Sun, Jupiter, & Neptune more widely foreground
-- Su/Ju on horizon 0°04'
-- Sun-Saturn op. 2°13' in mundo
Moon-Venus sq. 0°20'
Moon-Mars 0°16' in mundo
Moon-Pluto 3°44'

Bridge {-2}
t Pluto conj. Capsolar IC 0°51'
t Saturn conj. Cansolar EP 0°30'

Quarter: Arisolar {-1}
Mars on MC 0°20'
Moon-Uranus conj. 1°08'

Month: Caplunar {-2}
Venus on Dsc 1°18'
Mars & Saturn more widely foreground
-- Ve/Sa on horizon 1°00'
-- Saturn sq. non-angular Neptune 0°16'
Moon-Neptune sq. 2°25' in mundo

Week: Canlunar {-2}
Mars sq. MC 0°35'
Uranus on Dsc 2°26'
-- Mars-Uranus sq. 2°11'
Pluto sq. MC 1°29'
Venus more widely foreground

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {-1 / +1 = 0}
p MC conj. s Uranus 1°49', sq. t Mars 0°50'
-- t Mars sq. s Uranus 0°59'
p Asc sq. t Venus 1°47'
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t Pluto conj. s IC 0°51'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {-2}
p MC conj. t Neptune 1°16', s Neptune 0°56', sq. t Saturn 0°06'
p Asc op. s Sun 1°14', sq. t Moon 1°16'
p EP conj. s Jupiter 1°20'
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t Saturn conj. s EP 0°30'

[Avshalom Binyamin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryrEPzsx1gQ

[SteveS]

Av, Your link to the 'Tornados,' musically set to their song Telstar, sent me Way Back into Time when I was 15 years old listening to AM Radio.

[Jim Eshelman]

Switching, here are the charts for Washington, DC. For the most part, these charts are better and some of them are good.

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.) Moon-Jupiter Moon-Neptune.

Year: Cansolar {-2}
Saturn on Asc 0°23'
Sun on Dsc 1°29'
-- Sun-Pluto sq. 0°36' PVP
-- Saturn-Pluto sq. 1°01' PVP
Jupiter more widely foreground
-- Su/Sa on horizon 0°33'
-- Sun-Saturn op. 1°52' in mundo
Moon-Mars 0°09' in mundo
Moon-Venus sq. 0°20'
Moon-Pluto 3°44'

Bridge {+2}
t Jupiter conj. Capsolar MC 1°26'

Quarter: Arisolar (Dormant.) Moon-Uranus Moon-Neptune.

Quarter: Libsolar {+2}
Pluto sq. MC 0°39'
Uranus more widely angular
Moon-Mercury 2°22'
Moon-Jupiter conj. 0°36' in mundo

Month: Caplunar {-1}
Venus on Dsc 0°51'
Uranus sq. MC 1°38'
Saturn more widely foreground [sq. non-angular Neptune 0°16']
-- Venus-Saturn op. 3°14' in mundo

Week: Canlunar {+1}
Mars sq. Asc 0°38'
Venus on Dsc 1°51'
-- Venus-Jupiter sq. 0°32' PVP
Uranus on Dsc 2°07'
Pluto sq. MC 1°52'
-- Mars-Uranus sq. 2°11'
-- Venus-Uranus conj. 3°58' ...
-- -- Ve/Ur on Dsc 0°08'
-- -- Ju/Sa on Asc 0°53'
Jupiter & Saturn widely foreground
-- Saturn sq. non-angular Neptune 0°46'

Day: Capsolar Transits {+2}
t Jupiter conj. s MC 1°26'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian {-2}
p EP conj. t Saturn 1°34'