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Syncom: see communications satellite communications satellite artificial satellite that functions as part of a global radio-communications network. Echo 1, the first communications satellite, launched in 1960, was an instrumented inflatable sphere that passively reflected radio signals back to
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While growing as a defense contractor, Hughes started the modern communications satellite industry in 1963 with the successful launch of Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous orbit satellite.
 
 
 
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