Current Operations
Hughes added the following to Boeing's portfolio:
- HS-376 — MEASAT, Marcopolo, and others.
- HS-601 — ProtoStar II, and others.
- HS-702, now the Boeing 702
- US Navy UHF replacement- Military version of HS601
- NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellites — Communications with Space Shuttle and International Space Station.
- NASA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites.
- HSGEO Mobile — Based on the 702 bus, for Thuraya Satellite Communications, United Arab Emirates, and soon for SkyTerra.
The purchase of Hughes Space and Communications Company in 2000 gave Boeing an impressive range of products for design, manufacture, launch and support of satellites. This was in addition to Boeing Integrated Defense Systems' other space assets, e.g. Delta launch vehicles, older-generation GPS satellites, and Rocketdyne and Rockwell's space operations (which include much of the hardware used in NASA's manned space program, such as the Space Shuttle, International Space Station, rocket engines, etc.)
Currently projects at the Boeing Satellite Development Center (spacecraft being designed, built, tested, or prepared for launch) are satellites made for XM (satellite radio), DirecTV (satellite television), MSV (satellite mobile telephony), Spaceway (data networks), GPS (satellite navigation), and for the Wideband Global SATCOM system and TSAT projects (military communications). Designs for ISAT (military orbital radar demonstrator), for additional GOES satellites (meteorology), and for other spacecraft, are currently being developed and proposed.
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