ADVISORY/Boeing to Build Third Superbird Satellite for Japan.Business Editors & Technology Writers ADVISORY...for WEDNESDAY NOTE TO EDITORS: Multimedia Assets Available With This Story Include Logos, Photos, Text News Releases --(BUSINESS WIRE) Boeing Satellite Systems, a unit of The Boeing Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BA), signed a contract on Sept. 28, 2001, with Space Communications Space communications Communications between a vehicle in outer space and Earth, using high-frequency electromagnetic radiation (radio waves). Provision for such communication is an essential requirement of any space mission. Corporation (SCC SCC - strongly connected component ) of Tokyo for a Boeing 601 communications satellite communications satellite artificial satellite that functions as part of a global radio-communications network. Echo 1, the first communications satellite, launched in 1960, was an instrumented inflatable sphere that passively reflected radio signals back to . You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?4044 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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