Taylor M Potter

Uncrewed communications and technology satelliteTelstar 1Elliptical medium Earth orbit

Spacecraft: Telstar 1 spacecraft
Launch vehicle: Thor-Delta
Communications and technology payload: Active microwave repeater, telemetry beacon, command receiver, and radiation-monitoring equipment

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Uncrewed communications and technology satelliteRelay 1Elliptical medium Earth orbit

Spacecraft: Relay 1 spacecraft
Launch vehicle: Delta B
Communications and technology payload: Broadband active repeater, command and telemetry system, and radiation experiments

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Uncrewed communications and technology satelliteSyncom 1Near-synchronous transfer trajectory

Spacecraft: Syncom 1 spacecraft
Launch vehicle: Delta B
Communications and technology payload: Active communications repeater, telemetry and command system, and apogee propulsion

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Uncrewed communications and technology satelliteTelstar 2Higher elliptical medium Earth orbit

Spacecraft: Telstar 2 spacecraft
Launch vehicle: Delta B
Communications and technology payload: Active microwave repeater, telemetry system, and expanded radiation experiments

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Uncrewed communications and technology satelliteSyncom 2Inclined geosynchronous orbit

Spacecraft: Syncom 2 spacecraft
Launch vehicle: Delta B
Communications and technology payload: Active repeater for voice, teletype, facsimile, and low-rate television tests

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Uncrewed communications and technology satelliteRelay 2Elliptical medium Earth orbit

Spacecraft: Relay 2 spacecraft
Launch vehicle: Delta B
Communications and technology payload: Improved active communications repeater, telemetry, command, and radiation instruments

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Uncrewed communications and technology satelliteSyncom 3Geostationary orbit over the Pacific

Spacecraft: Syncom 3 spacecraft
Launch vehicle: Delta D
Communications and technology payload: Active communications repeater with telemetry, command, and station-keeping propulsion

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Uncrewed communications and technology satelliteIntelsat IGeostationary orbit over the Atlantic

Spacecraft: Intelsat I spacecraft
Launch vehicle: Delta D
Communications and technology payload: Two 25-megahertz transponders supporting 240 voice circuits or one television channel

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Uncrewed communications and technology satelliteATS-1Geosynchronous orbit

Spacecraft: ATS-1 spacecraft
Launch vehicle: Atlas-Agena D
Communications and technology payload: C-band and VHF communications experiments, phased-array antennas, spin-scan cloud camera, WEFAX, and space-environment instruments

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Uncrewed communications and technology satelliteATS-2Unintended elliptical Earth orbit

Spacecraft: ATS-2 spacecraft
Launch vehicle: Atlas-Agena D
Communications and technology payload: Communications, meteorological, particle, fields, and gravity-gradient stabilization experiments

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Uncrewed communications and technology satelliteATS-3Geosynchronous orbit

Spacecraft: ATS-3 spacecraft
Launch vehicle: Atlas-Agena D
Communications and technology payload: Color spin-scan cloud camera, image dissector camera, WEFAX, C-band and VHF communications, and space-environment instruments

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Uncrewed communications and technology satelliteATS-4Unintended low Earth orbit

Spacecraft: ATS-4 spacecraft
Launch vehicle: Atlas-Centaur
Communications and technology payload: Gravity-gradient stabilization, communications, meteorological imaging, and environmental experiments

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Uncrewed communications and technology satelliteATS-5Geosynchronous orbit

Spacecraft: ATS-5 spacecraft
Launch vehicle: Atlas-Centaur
Communications and technology payload: Gravity-gradient stabilization, communications transponder, WEFAX relay, imaging, and environmental experiments

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Uncrewed communications and technology satelliteATS-6Geostationary orbit, restationed from 94° west to 35° east

Spacecraft: ATS-6 spacecraft
Launch vehicle: Titan IIIC with Transtage
Communications and technology payload: Thirty-foot deployable reflector, direct-broadcast transmitters, satellite-to-satellite relay, precise three-axis pointing, meteorology, propulsion, and space-environment experiments

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