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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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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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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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shuttle crew deplo**** two
communications satellites: Telesat-I (Anik C1) and
Syncom IV-3 (also
known as Leasat-3); both were Hughes-built satellites. Telesat-I...
- four
years earlier. The
games were
telecast to the
United States using Syncom 3, the
first geostationary communication satellite, and from
there to Europe...
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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...
- that
designed and
built the
first geosynchronous communications satellite,
Syncom, for
Hughes Aircraft Company.
Harold Allen Rosen was born on
March 20, 1926...
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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...
- (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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Division built the world's
first geosynchronous communications satellite,
Syncom,
followed by the
first geosynchronous weather satellite, ATS-1, in 1966...
