Its batteries lasted 12 days and it reentered the atmosphere on 21 January 1959. Thirty years ago, on 18 December 1958, the world's first communications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Its batteries lasted 12 days and it reentered the atmosphere on 21 January 1959. Thirty years ago December 1958, the world's first communications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This was on 18.