Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Bayan ƙaddamar da Telstar ta hanyar tauraron dan adam na Westar 1, RCA Americom (daga baya GE Americom, yanzu SES) ya ƙaddamar da Satcom 1 a 1975. Satcom 1 ne ya taimaka wa tashoshin talabijin na farko kamar WTBS (yanzu TBS), HBO, CBN (yanzu Freeform) da The Weather Channel sun sami nasara, saboda waɗannan tashoshin sun rarraba shirye-shiryensu ga duk shugabannin gidan talabijin na gida ta amfani da tauraron dan adam. Bugu da kari, ita ce tauraron dan adam na farko da aka yi amfani da shi ta hanyar watsa shirye-shiryen talabijin a Amurka, kamar ABC, NBC, da CBS, don rarraba shirye-shirye ga tashoshin haɗin gwiwar su na gida. An yi amfani da Satcom 1 sosai saboda yana da damar sadarwa sau biyu na gasar Westar 1 a Amurka (24 masu amsawa sabanin 12 na Westar 1), wanda ya haifar da ƙananan kuɗin amfani da masu amsawa. A shekara ta 2000, kamfanin Hughes Space and Communications (yanzu Boeing Satellite Development Center) ya gina kusan kashi 40 cikin ɗari na tauraron da ake amfani da shi a dukan duniya. Sauran manyan masana'antun tauraron dan adam sun haɗa da Space Systems / Loral, Kamfanin Kimiyyar Orbital tare da jerin Star Bus, Indian Space Research Organisation, Lockheed Martin (mai mallakar tsohon RCA Astro Electronics / GE Astro Space business), Northrop Grumman, Alcatel Space, yanzu Thales Alenia Space, tare da jerin Spacebus, da Astrium.  Tambaya: Yaushe aka kaddamar da Satcom 1 a karshe?
Shekara ta 1975