High flying.High Flying: Boeing Co. won a satellite contract worth up to $1 billion, the biggest commercial contract for the company's El Segundo-based Satellite Development Center in nine years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time defense firm said. Boeing will build three of its model 702 satellites, and associated ground systems, for Reston, Va.-based Mobile Satellite Ventures Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) is a Reston, VA company that develops telecommunications systems that integrate satellite and terrestrial radio communication technologies into one system. . Mobile Satellite's chairman and chief executive, Alexander Good, said the contract is worth between $500 million and $1 billion. But the new contract won't lead to additional jobs in El Segundo El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , the Daily Breeze The Daily Breeze is a 70,000-circulation daily newspaper published in Torrance, California. It serves the South Bay cities of Los Angeles County, and produces a weekly supplement in San Pedro. reported. Mobile Satellite plans to use the satellites to create the world's first commercial mobile satellite service based on both space and terrestrial elements. |
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