SATCOM 47

SATCOM 47 was a communications satellite in Earth orbit owned by Henry Starling and his company Chronowerx in the 20th century.

In 1996 when Henry Starling was apprehended by the crew of the USS Voyager, Starling was liberated by his assistant, Mr. Dunbar, who used SATCOM 47 to both scan for his presence and to relay a transporter signal which penetrated Voyager's shields. (VOY: "Future's End")

The Satcom series was a family of communications satellites originally developed and operated by the RCA American Communications (RCA Americom). Satcom was one of the first geostationary satellites. The first satellite, Satcom 1 was launched on December 13, 1975. The last satellite, Satcom K2, was placed into orbit on November 27, 1985 and was de-orbited in February 2002. Satcom was first superseded and then replaced by the GE series of satellites.

The Satcom system passed to General Electric with its purchase of RCA in 1986. RCA Americom became GE American Communications (GE Americom) and the satellite construction division became GE Astro Space. GE Astro Space was sold to Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin Space Systems) in 1993. In 2001 GE sold GE Americom to SES Global, creating SES Americom.