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Syncom (for "synchronous
communication satellite")
started as a 1961 NASA
program for
active geosynchronous communication satellites, all of
which were...
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geostationary satellites was the
Hughes Aircraft Company's
Syncom 2,
launched on 26 July 1963.
Syncom 2 was the
first communications satellite in a geosynchronous...
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remain in
geosynchronous Earth orbit, and NSS-9 is above. In 1964,
Syncom 3 was
positioned on the
International Date Line at the equator, a point...
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contracted to
begin building the real satellite. They lost
Syncom 1 to
electronics failure, but
Syncom 2 was
successfully placed into a
geosynchronous orbit...
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three commercial communications satellites and
retrieve and
repair the
Syncom IV-3 (Leasat-3) satellite,
which had been deplo****
during the STS-51-D mission...
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launch of the
Syncom 2 NASA program,
allowing him to
phone for
President Kennedy from the USNS
Kingsport docked at
Lagos Harbor via the
SYNCOM satellite on...
- from
orbit two
other communications satellites. The
Canadian Anik D2 and
Syncom IV-1
satellites were both
successfully deplo**** by the crew of Discovery...
- (T-AG-164). The ship was sent to Lagos,
Nigeria as the
control station for
Syncom 2
becoming the site of the
first two way call by
satellite by
heads of state...
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contracted to
begin building the
working satellite. They lost
Syncom 1 to
electronics failure, but
Syncom 2 was
successfully placed into a
geosynchronous orbit...
- four
years earlier. The
games were
telecast to the
United States using Syncom 3, the
first geostationary communication satellite, and from
there to Europe...
