SBS 1 was a

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communications satellite designed and manufactured by Hughes (now Boeing) on the HS-376 platform. It was ordered by Satellite Business Systems, which later sold it to Hughes Communications. It had a K_u band payload and operated on the 149°W longitude.

Satellite description

The spacecraft was designed and manufactured by Hughes on the HS-376 satellite bus. It had a launch mass of , a

geostationary orbit A geostationary orbit, also referred to as a geosynchronous equatorial orbit''Geostationary orbit'' and ''Geosynchronous (equatorial) orbit'' are used somewhat interchangeably in sources. (GEO), is a circular geosynchronous orbit in altitud ...

and a 7-year design life.

History

On November 15, 1980, SBS 1 was launched by a Delta-3910 PAM-D from

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at 22:49 UTC. In June 1990, SBS 1 was finally decommissioned and put into a graveyard orbit.

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