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HGS

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The Asiasat HS 601 spacecraft was left in a high inclination useless orbit by a failure of the DM-3 stage and became an insurance write-off. Two trips around the Moon to remove the inclination under its new owner (Hughes) saw it back into very limited service (as HGS-1)