Galaxy 1
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galaxy-1-200-13359751
title:
Galaxy 1
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Galaxy 1 was the first in a line of Galaxy communications satellites launched by Hughes Communications in 1983. It helped fill a hole in satellite broadcasting bandwidth created by the loss of RCA's Satcom 3 in 1979. Unlike satellite owners RCA and Western Union, Hughes did not lease time on their transponders in the fashion of a common carrier, but instead sold transponders outright to content providers. This created a stable lineup of content attractive enough for cable providers to dedicate E
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TV and communications satellite
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_1
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2023-08-15T00:09:28Z
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