ADVISORY/Boeing Wins First Contract for Linearized Satellite Amplifiers Valued at Up to $16 Million.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Monday (Sept. 10) NOTE TO EDITORS: Multimedia Assets Available With This Story Include Logos, Photos, Text News Releases --(BUSINESS WIRE) Boeing Electron Dynamic Devices (EDD Noun 1. EdD - a doctor's degree in education DEd, Doctor of Education doctor's degree, doctorate - one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university ), the leading manufacturer of power and propulsion components for space applications, has received its first contract for linearized traveling wave tube amplifiers A traveling wave tube amplifier (abbreviated TWTA and often pronounced "TWEET-uh") is an electronic device used to produce high-power radio frequency signals. The bandwidth of a broadband TWTA can be as high as one octave, although tuned (narrowband) versions exist, and (LTWTAs). Orbital Sciences Corporation Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC, though commonly referred to as Orbital) is a Dulles, Virginia company which specializes in satellite launch and manufacture. Its Launch Systems Group is heavily involved with missile defense launch systems. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ORB (Object Request Broker) Software that handles the communication of messages from the requesting program (client) to the object as well as any return values from the object back to the calling program. See CORBA and DCOM. See also ORB disk. ) recently placed an order for 32 C-Band LTWTAs in a contract initially worth $5 million, with a total value of up to $16 million. EDD is a business of The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA). You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?3900 This multimedia news story is for free and unrestricted use on your news information site (and for print or broadcast too). Visit http://www.newstream.com to download video, audio, text, graphics, and photos. If you have any questions about the story, or about Newstream.com, please write to us at info@newstream.com. |
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