Space Systems / Loral
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| legal form | subsidiary |
| founding | 1957 |
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Richmond , Canada (Headquarters MDA) Palo Alto , United States 
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| management | John Celli |
| Number of employees | 2,900 |
| sales | $ 630 million (2007) |
| Branch | Space travel |
| Website | sslmda.com |
Space Systems / Loral (SSL) is a Canadian / US company that manufactures satellites and space systems for government and civil customers. Since 1960, the company has manufactured more than 270 satellites. SSL is a subsidiary of the Canadian electrical, aerospace and aerospace company MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) .
history
The company was founded in 1957 in the San Francisco Bay Area as Western Development Laboratories (WDL) , a subsidiary of Philco Corporation . As early as 1960, Philco WDL built the Courier 1B communications satellite, the world's first active relay satellite, for the US Air Force .
The company was taken over by the Ford automotive company in 1961 and renamed Philco-Ford in 1966 . In the same year Philco-Ford initiated the Initial Defense Communication Satellite Program and built a total of 26 satellites in the program over the period up to 1968.
In 1971, Philco-Ford built the first NATO-1 satellite, which ensured a communication link between NATO headquarters in Brussels and other branches of the NATO allies.
In the following years the company was renamed several times ( Aeronutronic Ford and later Ford Aerospace ), until the space division of Ford was sold to Loral Space & Communications in 1990 and thus got the current name Space Systems / Loral .
Between 1994 and 2001, Loral built five geostationary weather satellites for NASA, and in 2000 Loral began shipping the first Sirius satellite radio satellites. In 2005 the company built the Thaicom-4 communications satellite.
In 2012 the company was taken over by the Canadian space company MacDonald & Dettwiler . Loral was merged with its own subsidiary MDA Space Missions . On November 2, 2012, the US regulatory authority gave its approval for the takeover.
Customers
Customers include a .: AsiaSat , DirecTV , EchoStar , Globalstar , Hispasat , Hughes Network Systems, ICO Global Communications, Intelsat , Japan MTSAT , JSC Gascom, Telesat Canada , NASA / NOAA (GOES) , Optus , PanAmSat , QuetzSat, SatMex , SES SA , SES New Skies , Shin Satellite , Sirius Satellite Radio , SpainSat , ViaSat , WildBlue and XM Satellite Radio .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ President's Welcome. (No longer available online.) SSL, archived from the original on December 14, 2013 ; Retrieved December 11, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Loral Space & Communications Inc. (Ed.): Loral Reports 2007 Operating Results . Status: April 1, 2008. URL: http://investor.loral.com/downloads.cfm (accessed on September 12, 2008)
- ↑ Space Systems / Loral (Ed.): Overview . URL: Archive link ( Memento from March 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 19, 2011)
- ↑ a b c Space Systems / Loral Celebrates Fifty Years of Satellite Innovation. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 24, 2017 ; accessed on August 24, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ IDCSP -> DSCS-1. Retrieved August 24, 2017 .
- ↑ NATO 1 in the Encyclopedia Astronautica , accessed on August 25, 2017 (English).
- ↑ JONATHAN WEBER: Newport Plant Put in Limbo by Ford Sale: Defense industry: With the aerospace subsidiary under new ownership, the future of its Aeronutronic division in Orange County is up in the air. In: Los Angeles Times . July 24, 1990, ISSN 0458-3035 ( latimes.com [accessed August 25, 2017]).
- ^ Thaicom Public Company Limited: THAICOM 4 (IPSTAR) | Thaicom Public Company Limited. Retrieved August 25, 2017 (American English).
- ↑ MDA Acquires Space Systems Loral in Blockbuster Deal (Updated) ( Memento from January 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ MDA Completes Acquisition of Space Systems / Loral, Releases Earnings and Prepares for RCM ( Memento from January 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on November 8, 2012
