by the GE series of satellites. The Satcom system passed to General Electric with its purchase of RCA in 1986. RCA Americom became GE American Communications...

and later the RCA Global Communications Company. In 1975, the company formed RCA American Communications, which operated its Satcom series of geostationary...

primary goal of the flight was to deliver a communications satellite, RCA Americom Satcom KU-1, designed and built at the Astro-Electronics facility, into...

GE Astro Space (as Satcom K3). Twelve years later, in 2001, SES acquired GE Americom, which originally was to operate the Satcom K3 satellite (and was...

deployment of RCA Americom's Satcom Ku-1 satellite, the primary mission objective. Satcom Ku-1 was deployed nearly 10 hours into the mission, and Satcom later...

RCA-SATCOM 4". NSSDCA Master Catalog. NASA. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021. "General information about RCA-SATCOM 4"...

(increasingly sophisticated) Satcom satellites would enter service from 1976 to 1992. In 1986, General Electric acquired RCA and renamed the Americom unit...

Telstar through Westar 1 satellites, RCA Americom (later GE Americom, now SES) launched Satcom 1 in 1975. It was Satcom 1 that was instrumental in helping...

$6.5 million allocated by Levin) with RCA Americom to lease a transponder on the then-under construction Satcom I—which was expected to be launched at...

of Satcom 1 (which SSS had assigned to beam the signal to participating providers) had failed and that the communications satellite's operator, RCA American...