TRW Ships AstroMesh Reflector; Flight Hardware Delivered To Hughes.Business Editors REDONDO BEACH Redondo Beach (rĭdŏn`dō), city (1990 pop. 60,167), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1892. Once a commercial port for Los Angeles, it is a residential and resort city with a protected harbor and an excellent marina. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 2000 TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc Inc. has delivered to Hughes Space and Communications Co. the third in a series of four large, lightweight, deployable reflectors designed to serve as an antenna for high-power spacecraft communications systems In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. . Measuring more than 12 meters (40 feet) in diameter and weighing only 55 kilograms (121 pounds), the reflector reflector: see telescope. is one of the largest developed for satellite communications applications, such as mobile communications systems. Its large size enables hand-held voice and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. from geo-stationary orbit 23,000 miles above the ground. "Our patented AstroMesh(TM) reflectors meet the industry's need for larger antenna apertures on new communications satellites," said James Conlan, president, TRW Astro Aerospace. "Their unique design minimizes the size and mass for launch and reliably deploys in space to form the large dish-shaped antenna reflector. The reflectors are an example of the highly reliable and affordable space deployable products that we've been supplying to the space industry for more than 40 years." TRW's Astro Aerospace subsidiary drew on extensive experience building space deployable products to develop the AstroMesh reflector. AstroMesh reflectors, which have been built in 6-meter and 12-meter designs, are made of a graphite composite tube truss truss, in architecture and engineering, a supporting structure or framework composed of beams, girders, or rods commonly of steel or wood lying in a single plane. structure that unfolds from a cylindrical stowed shape. When stowed, the reflector folds into a package only 10% of its full diameter. TRW Astro Aerospace designs and manufactures space deployable structures, including deployable truss masts, telescopic tel·e·scop·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to a telescope. 2. Seen or obtained by means of a telescope: telescopic data. 3. booms, storable tubular extendible members, solar arrays and deep truss structures. TRW Inc. provides advanced technology products and services for the global automotive, aerospace and information systems markets. TRW Inc.'s 1999 sales totaled approximately $17 billion. TRW's corporate Website is: www.trw.com |
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