GENERAL ELECTRIC / WESTERN UNION TRANSATEL CONTRACTOR'S MODEL. APOLLO-ERA SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY Original Contractor's Model, glass, wood, plastic and metal on wooden base, 140 x 120 x 120 mm, featuring a model satellite on a rotating wooden base inside a cutaway dome surrounded by miniature ops buildings, dome featuring GE and two Western Union International, Inc. decals; base marked "Transatel / General Electric"; storage facilities with GE device. Together with yellow printed "Apollo 11" folder containing 7 "Apollo 11 Splashdown" news releases, two sheets of contact proofs with images of the Transatel in action, and related ephemera. Transatel (Transportable Satellite Telecommunications Terminal) was first used during Apollo 7, but the system, which allowed live color footage to be broadcast throughout the world, came into its own during Apollo 11 & 13 when hundreds of millions of viewers tuned in around the world. We can find no examples of this model appearing at auction. Doubtlessly, very few were ever produced.
GENERAL ELECTRIC / WESTERN UNION TRANSATEL CONTRACTOR'S MODEL. APOLLO-ERA SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY Original Contractor's Model, glass, wood, plastic and metal on wooden base, 140 x 120 x 120 mm, featuring a model satellite on a rotating wooden base inside a cutaway dome surrounded by miniature ops buildings, dome featuring GE and two Western Union International, Inc. decals; base marked "Transatel / General Electric"; storage facilities with GE device. Together with yellow printed "Apollo 11" folder containing 7 "Apollo 11 Splashdown" news releases, two sheets of contact proofs with images of the Transatel in action, and related ephemera. Transatel (Transportable Satellite Telecommunications Terminal) was first used during Apollo 7, but the system, which allowed live color footage to be broadcast throughout the world, came into its own during Apollo 11 & 13 when hundreds of millions of viewers tuned in around the world. We can find no examples of this model appearing at auction. Doubtlessly, very few were ever produced.
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