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Early Bird was the world's first commercial communications satellite. Early Bird I was developed by the American Hughes Aircraft Company for the US Communications Satelite Corporation and launched from Cape Kennedy in 1965 into a synchronous orbit 35890 km above the equator. After initial tests, Early Bird I was officially inaugurated into commercial services on June the 28th 1965 and provided service to public telephones. Early Bird was a drum-shaped satellite weighing 39 kg and provided up to 240 two-way telephone channels between the USA and Europe.
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The Early Bird is a comedy starring Norman Wisdom in a story about a hapless milkman trying to save a small dairy from a corporation. The Early Bird was directed by Robert Asher in 1965.
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Early bird is London Cockney rhyming slang for advice, talk (word).
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