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Satellite Launcher Signs Deal.


Long Beach-based Sea Launch announced it has signed a contract to launch two communications satellites 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  for Hughes Electronics Corp.'s Spaceway The SPACEWAY system was originally envisioned as a global Ka band communications system by Hughes Electronics [1] [2]. When the project to build the system was taken over by Hughes Network Systems [3], a subsidiary of Hughes Electronics, it  unit in a deal with Boeing (language) BOEING - An early system on the IBM 1130.

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 Co., which also is building the orbiters.

Boeing, which bought Hughes' satellite-making arm for $3.85 billion last year, owns 40 percent of Sea Launch, an international consortium that runs a floating satellite launch platform near the equator.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed dis·close  
tr.v. dis·closed, dis·clos·ing, dis·clos·es
1. To expose to view, as by removing a cover; uncover.

2. To make known (something heretofore kept secret).
.

Sea Launch has completed five successful missions to date.
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Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Apr 2, 2001
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