It depends what they plan for R1. If they turn R1 into spot beam mode, they will of course have a lot of HD-LIL ability. But of course they have some issues:
E3 is fading out. If R-1 is in spot mode the CONUS E3 is going to hurt what they can carry on 61.5. 3 lost TPs to date.
VOOM on R-1 would have to be moved to E3
They would need uplinks for the spots on R-1
So, it is hard to say what they are going to do. If they do not turn on R-1 spots and use it for CONUS they will have 3 less TPs still out on E3, or 3 LIL HD cities without coverage because of the outage. Yes they have spare capacity on R-1 right now, but using it for national coverage eliminates a ton of LIL HD capacity it could have in spot mode.
They need to get busy and build a cheap E3 replacement.