Editing Syncom (section)

=== Syncom 3 ===
'''Syncom 3''' was the first [[Geostationary orbit|geostationary]] communication satellite, launched on August 19, 1964 with the [[Delta rocket|Delta D]] #25 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral.  The satellite, in orbit near the [[International Date Line]], had the addition of a wideband channel for television and was used to telecast the [[1964 Summer Olympics]] in [[Tokyo]] to the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=For Gold, Silver & Bronze |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,876272,00.html |date=October 16, 1964 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080421134503/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,876272,00.html |archive-date=April 21, 2008 |magazine=[[TIME]] }}</ref> Although Syncom 3 is sometimes credited with the first television program to cross the [[Pacific Ocean]], the [[Relay 1]] satellite first broadcast television from the United States to Japan on November 22, 1963.<ref name="NASA-SP-93">{{cite web |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19660009169_1966009169.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19660009169_1966009169.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live |title=Significant Achievements in Space Communications and Navigation, 1958-1964 |date=1966 |work=NASA-SP-93 |publisher=NASA |pages=30–32 |access-date=October 31, 2009 }}</ref>{{Rp|1}}