Scrapbook 3: Telstar Plan For Tokio Olympics

Telstar Plan For Tokio Olympics

TOKIO, Saturday.

JAPAN announced to-day it will open negotiations later this month with the United States on possible use of American communications satellites to “telecast” the 1964 Tokio Olymnics.

If the Japanese get U.S. agreement they plan to broadcast the Olympics on an “experimental basis” throughout the world, according to Postal and Communications Ministry officials.

A specific date to open negotiations has not been set. Any agreement that results will be part of a Japan-U.S space communications project, a spokesman said.

New York cables:

A newspaper front page has been sent into space and back in one minute, via the Telstar communications satellite. The method used in this experiment could be applied in publishing a world-wide daily newspaper.

The newspaper-into-space test was conducted jointly by research engineers of the Westrex Communications systems Division of Littonsystems Inc., and Bell Laboratory personnel of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.—Reuter.