On July 10, 1962, this  satellite relayed the first live TV images across the Atlantic from the United States to France
The United States first launched a radioisotope thermoelectric... [DOC] [TLE] Bell Labs - Telstar [PAR] Although not the first communications satellite, Telstar is the best known of all 
and is probably ... upon the public by the first transmission of live television 
across the Atlantic Ocean.