X-Nico

unusual facts about Hughes Aircraft



Electrostatic ion thruster

Hughes Aircraft Company (now L-3 ETI) has developed the XIPS (Xenon Ion Propulsion System) for performing station keeping on its geosynchronous satellites (more than 100 engines flying).

Ken Mora

After receiving a layoff from Hughes Spacecraft, in El Segundo, CA, he work freelance with his graphic designer with MacTemps (now Aquent) and was ultimately hired away to the post of Art Director at The Verity Group, a management consulting firm in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles.


see also

Harold George

Harold L. George (1893–1986), USAAF Lieutenant General, Hughes Aircraft executive