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suffered a spin lock while attempting to jostle the communications payload: the spun and despun sections locked together. Remembering this second failure of F4, and with F1 beginning to wear out at the spin bearing, it was decided to "flip" F1 every six months to keep the payload in the sun. Thus F1 went on to operate smoothly for its remaining life and never encountered a locked despun section.
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oceans, spaced about 90 degrees apart. Five satellites were ordered, with one as a replacement. Also part of the contract were the associated control systems and ground stations. The lease contracts were typically for five-year terms, with the lessee having the opportunity to extend the lease or to
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propellant for station keeping and spin stabilization. The communications systems offers a wideband UHF channel (500 kHz bandwidth), six relay 25 kHz channels, and five narrowband 5 kHz channels. This is in addition to the fleet broadcast frequency, which is in the military's X-band.
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Syncom 2 also relayed a number of test television transmissions from Fort Dix, New Jersey to a ground station in Andover, Maine, beginning on September 29, 1963. Although it was low-quality video with no audio, it was the first successful television transmission through a geosynchronous satellite.
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Leasat F4 was subsequently powered down and moved to a graveyard orbit with a large amount of station keeping fuel in reserve. This was fortuitous; when another satellite suffered a loss of its fuel ten years later, Hughes engineers pioneered the use of alternative propellants with Leasat F4. Long
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The stricken F4 did not remain a complete failure. Data from F4's failure permitted the saving of F1 from a premature failure. Since all of the Leasats are spin-stabilized, they have a bearing that connects the non-rotating and rotating parts of the spacecraft. After F4's communication failure, it
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However, with another satellite planned to be launched, it was determined that a space walk by a subsequent Shuttle crew might be able to "wake" the craft. The best guess was that a switch had failed to turn on the satellite. A "bypass box" was hastily constructed, NASA was excited to offer
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The spacecraft next carried out a series of attitude and velocity maneuvers to align itself with the equator at an inclination of 0.1 degrees and to slow its speed so it drifted west to the planned location at 180 degrees longitude where its speed at altitude was synchronized with the
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The five satellites of the 1980s Leasat (Leased Satellite) program (Leasat F1 through Leasat F5) were alternatively named Syncom IV-1 to Syncom IV-5 and called HS 381 by the manufacturer. These satellites were considerably larger than Syncoms 1 to 3, weighing 1.3
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on January 9, 1990. The last active Leasat, it was officially decommissioned on September 24, 2015, at 18:25:13 UTC. F5 was one of the longest-serving and most successful commercial satellites. Towards the end of its 25-year life, F5 had been leased by the
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after its primary mission had failed, F4 was powered back on to test whether a satellite could be kept on station using nonvolatile propellants. F4 was used to perform numerous tests, including maneuvers with oxidizer for propulsion once the hydrazine ran out.
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During the first year of Syncom 2 operations, NASA conducted voice, teletype, and facsimile tests, as well as 110 public demonstrations to show the capabilities of this satellite and invite feedback. In August 1963, President
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For example, no transistor amplifiers existed, and transistors then didn't work well at frequencies above 70 MHz. We had to get up to 10 GHz. So we used a chain of diode frequency multipliers, or
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kick motor for circularizing the orbit was fired, the spacecraft fell silent. Later telescopic observations verified the satellite was in an orbit with a period of almost 24 hours at a 33° inclination.
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The system was used by military customers in the US and later in Australia. Most of the satellites were retired in the 1990s, but one would remain operational until 2015. During the
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Hughes was contracted to provide a worldwide communications system based on four satellites, one over the continental United States (CONUS), and one each over the
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By the end of 1964, Syncoms 2 and 3 had completed NASA's R&D experiments. On January 1, 1965, NASA transferred operation of the satellites to the
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In the 1980s, the series was continued as Syncom IV with some much larger satellites, also manufactured by Hughes. They were leased to the
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Prime Minister Balewa (2nd from right) talks to President John F. Kennedy on the first live broadcast via the SYNCOM satellite from USNS
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each (over 7 tonnes with launch fuel). At 4.26 metres (14.0 ft), the satellites were the first to be designed for launch from the
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assistance, the customer was supportive, and the insurance underwriters agreed to fund the first ever attempt at space salvage.
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with a despun communications and antenna section. They were made with a solid rocket motor for initial perigee burn and
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Leasat F1's launch was canceled just prior to lift-off, and F2 became the first into orbit on August 30, 1984 aboard
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connections. As of 25 June 2009, all three satellites are still in orbit, although no longer functioning.
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satellite first broadcast television from the United States to Japan on November 22, 1963.
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The fifth and last Leasat (F5), which was built as a spare, was successfully launched by
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In 1965, Syncom 3 was implemented to support the DOD's communications in Vietnam.
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spun down the F3 satellite. After the bypass box was installed by van Hoften and
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Harbor—the first live two-way call between heads of government by satellite. The
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communications satellite. It was launched on February 14, 1963, with the
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The three early Syncom satellites were experimental spacecraft built by
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was again used to launch Leasat F4, and during the same mission (
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Uhlig, Thomas; Sellmaier, Florian; Schmidhuber, Michael (2014).
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1960s and 80s NASA program to develop communications satellites
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communication satellite, launched on August 19, 1964 with the
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in Washington, D.C., telephoned Nigerian Prime Minister
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Syncom 3
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inline citations
improve
introducing
Learn how and when to remove this message
NASA
geosynchronous
communication satellites
Hughes Aircraft Company
Boeing Satellite Development Center
geostationary satellite
United States military

Hughes Aircraft Company
Culver City, California
Harold Rosen
payload
transponders
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Teletype
geosynchronous
Delta B
launch vehicle
Cape Canaveral
apogee
Delta B
Herman PotoÄŤnik Noordung

John F. Kennedy

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