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SES Americom is a major commercial Satellite operator based in the United States . Formerly '''RCA Americom''' and '''GE Americom''' the company is now (with SES Astra ) one of the principal parts of SES Global . Satellite Fleet SES Americom operates the following satellites: History RCA American Communications (RCA Americom) was founded in 1975 as an operator of RCA Astro Electronics -built satellites. The company's first satellite; Satcom 1 , was launched on December 12 , 1975 . Satcom 1 was one of the earliest geostationary satellites. Satcom 1 was instrumental in helping early cable TV channels because these channels distributed their programming to all of the local cable TV headends using the satellite. Additionally, it was the first satellite used by broadcast TV networks in the United States, like ABC , NBC , and CBS , to distribute their programming to all of their local affiliate stations. The reason that Satcom 1 was so widely used is that it had twice the communications capacity of the competing Westar 1 (24 transponders as opposed to Westar 1’s 12), which resulted in lower transponder usage costs. 14 more (increasingly sophisticated) Satcom satellites would enter service from 1976 to 1992 . In 1986 General Electric acquired RCA and renamed the Americom unit GE American Communications (GE Americom). From 1996 new satellites were named in the GE-# series, i.e. GE-1 in 1996, GE-2 in 1997 etc. SES purchase In 2001 SES Global was formed by SES for the $4.3 billion acquisition of GE Americom, which was completed in November of that year. SES Global was established as the group management company; with the renamed SES Americom and SES Astra as subsidiaries. The President and CEO of SES Americom is Edward Horowitz. See also External links
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