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... Infobox Spacecraft Name = '''''SATCOM KU-1'''''
Image = Image:SATCOM_Ku-1_STS-61-C.jpg 200px Organization = GE American Communications, Inc. (United States) Major_ ... Information = http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/datasetSearch.do?spacecraft=SATCOM%20KU-1 Here Data Collection = Carrier_Rocket = Space Shuttle SATCOM KU-1 was a commercial communications satellites built by RCA and ...

... Infobox Spacecraft Name = '''''SATCOM KU-2'''''
Image = Image:SATCOM_Ku-2_STS-61-B.jpg 200px Organization = GE American Communications, Inc. (United States) Major_ ... Information = http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/datasetSearch.do?spacecraft=SATCOM%20KU-2 Here Data Collection = Carrier_Rocket = Space Shuttle SATCOM KU-2 was a commercial communications satellite built by RCA and ...

Image:Satcom.jpg 200px SATCOM Category:Spacecraft

... and official voice, digital, and video communications between Alaska and the continental United States. Called Satcom 1R in orbit, the 3-axis stabilized craft weighed nearly 600 kilograms (1,320 pounds) and ... the first of RCA's domestic communications satellites, RCA Satcom 1 launched December 12, 1975, which had served for seven years. Satcom JR joined five previous RCA communications satellites to provide television ...

... came near a Hughes Communications' Galaxy 1. On October 23, it disturbed GE Americom's Satcom 1R . The result was that cable television nationwide was disrupted. NASA Associate Administrator Charles T. Force ...

... and had caused Japan to lose its international credibility. The successful launch of the MTSAT-1R restored morale to Japan's rocketry program. A second mission of the MTSAT-1R was to replace a satellite lost in November 1999 when the final H-2 rocket, the predecessor of H-2A, had failed to reach orbit. Japan had designed the MTSAT-1R to service the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau and the Japan Meteorological Agency, fulfilling the two ...

... turbofan engines. (DFRC Release 23-78) RCA Americom Communications, Inc., announced it would launch its Satcom-3 domestic comsat in Dec. 1979, more than a yr earlier than planned, and would ... on current design or the first of a new generation of spacecraft, Aerospace Daily reported. Satcom-3 previously appeared on a Space Shuttle schedule for launch in mid-1981. Latest plans called for a Delta launch like Satcoms 1 and 2; the Shuttle reservation would be assigned to Satcom-4. RCA Americom said it was advancing the Satcom-3 launch because traffic on the ...

... :41 pin EST 15 Dec. to put the satellite into a synchronous orbit. The RCA Satcom was the second domestic communications satellite to be launched by communications companies; the Western Union Corporation's Westar system became operational earlier this year. Each Satcom would receive and transmit data on 24 channels. Westar-a two-satellite system-had only ...

... satellite dishes would be able to access the live lessons directly from the RCA satellite Satcom F-2R, Transponder 13. The Public Broadcasting Service, as a result of an agreement with ... would launch the first RCA Satcom Ku-Band satellite, KU-2, on Space Shuttle mission 61-B. Three RCA Satcom Ku-Band satellites would complement the operating Satcom C-Band system in providing ... crew would launch Mexico's Morelos B satellite, Australia's AUSSAT 2, and RCA's Satcom KU-2. Jerry Ross and Sherwood Spring would also take two long spacewalks to assemble ...

... spaceflight. He was a Payload Specialist representing ASI on Space Shuttle mission STS-75 /TSS-1R (February 22 to March 9, 1996). The mission's principal payloads were the reflight and ... Station . Umberto Guidoni flew as a Payload Specialist on the 16-day STS-75 /TSS-1R mission (February 22 to March 9, 1996). The principal payloads were the reflight and deployment ...

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