The report is first of a planned series of reports on the Syncom Satellite System. It is an engineering report covering the satellite, the communications ground stations and the telemetry and control ground stations. This report covers a description of each of the Syncom Satellite System Subsystems in addition to their operation and performance. The time period covered by this report is from launch through the first one hundred fifty days in orbit. The material contained in this report was furnished by the Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, California, the United States Army Satellite Communications Agency, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, and the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

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