Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
TV-SAT 1 or TVSAT-1 was a West German communications satellite which was to have been operated by Deutsche Bundespost. It was intended to be used to provide television broadcast services to Europe however it failed before entering service. It was constructed by Aérospatiale based on the Spacebus 300 satellite bus and carried five NATO J-band (IEEE Ku band) transponders.