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6621, 63062. Website. www.Hughes.com. Hughes Network Systems, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar. [4] It is headquartered in Germantown, Maryland and provides satellite internet service. [5] HughesNet has over a million subscribers in the Americas in late 2023, [6] down from 1.4 million in early 2022.
84,000 peak, 1985. The Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded on February 14, 1934 by Howard Hughes in Glendale, California, as a division of Hughes Tool Company. [ 1] The company produced the Hughes H-4 Hercules aircraft, the atmospheric entry probe carried by the Galileo spacecraft, and the AIM-4 ...
Boeing 601. The Boeing 601 (sometimes referred to as the BSS-601, and previously as the HS-601) is a communications satellite bus designed in 1985 and introduced in 1987 by Hughes Space and Communications Company. The series was extremely popular in the 1990s, with more than 84 purchased by customers globally. The more advanced 601HP derivative ...
Website. www .boeing .com /space /boeing-satellite-family /. The Boeing Satellite Development Center is a major business unit of Boeing Defense, Space & Security. It brought together Boeing satellite operations with that of GM Hughes Electronics' Space and Communications division in El Segundo, California .
Intelsat I. Intelsat I (nicknamed Early Bird for the proverb "The early bird catches the worm") was the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit, on April 6, 1965. [1] [2] It was built by the Space and Communications Group of Hughes Aircraft Company (later Hughes Space and Communications Company, and now ...
In 1996 Hughes Electronics and PanAmSat agree to merge their fixed satellite services into a new publicly held company, also called PanAmSat with Hughes Electronics as majority shareholder. In 1995, Hughes Aircraft sold its Technology Products Division (automated wire and die bonder) to an investor group led by Citicorp and incorporated the ...
Syncom (for " synchronous communication satellite ") started as a 1961 NASA program for active geosynchronous communication satellites, all of which were developed and manufactured by the Space and Communications division of Hughes Aircraft Company (now the Boeing Satellite Development Center ). Syncom 2, launched in 1963, was the world's first ...
Dr. Harold Allen Rosen (20 March 1926 – 30 January 2017) was an American electrical engineer, known as "the father of the geostationary satellite", and "father of the communications satellite". He formed and led the team that designed and built the first geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom, for Hughes Aircraft Company.