Representative Peter H. Dominick receives a briefing on the latest advances in telecommunications satellite technologies in the hearing room of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee in 1962, 1962

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Congressman Dominick (R-Colo.) listens as an unidentified telecommunications company executive reviews details of a global satellite communications system following hearings before the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Congress passed the Communications Satellite Act in 1962, which created the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT). COMSAT used artificial satellites to establish a commercial system of global communication.

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