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Syncom 2 was the first geosynchronous communication satellite. Its orbit was inclined rather than geostationary. The satellite was launched by NASA on July 26, 1963 with the Delta B #20 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral. The satellite successfully kept station at the altitude calculated by Herman Potonik Noordung in the 1920s.
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Syncom (for "synchronous communication satellite") started as a 1961 NASA program for active geosynchronous communication satellites, all of which were developed and manufactured by Hughes Space and Communications.
Syncom 2, launched on July 26, 1963 with the Delta B #20 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral, was the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite.

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