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8 unusual facts about Hughes Aircraft Company


Electron Technologies, Inc.

Electron Technologies, Inc. (ETI) (formerly "Electron Dynamics Division (EDD)", a division of Hughes Aircraft Company), is a high technology company specializing in the manufacture of microwave devices for ground based, airborne and satellite communications and Radar.

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).

FLORIDA Airspace monitoring and management system

The FLORIDA Airspace monitoring and management system was an Airspace monitoring and management system of the Swiss Air Force from the Hughes Aircraft Company Fullerton, California, USA.

Fred Patten

During this time, Patten worked in numerous library positions, notably that of technical catalogue librarian at Hughes Aircraft Company's Company Technical Document Center (CTDC), in El Segundo, Calif., from 1969 to 1990.

Jorge N. Amely VĂ©lez

This scholarship program is offered to outstanding bachelor degree students through the Hughes Aircraft Company.

K1 88-Tank

The XK1 retained the XM1's M68E1 105 mm rifled main gun, which would also be domestically produced under license with the designation KM68, as well as a fire control system by Hughes Aircraft Company and the Nd:YAG laser rangefinder.

Mark T. Rafter

He spent the earlier part of his engineering career designing and building communications networks, primarily working on DoD-based systems for the Hughes Aircraft Company and later moving into commercial wireless and satellite applications with L-3 Communications and Loral Space and Communications companies.

Space Systems Laboratory

The Laboratory also has ties with the M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory, NASA Langley, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Air Force Research Laboratory, as well as the Departments of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at M.I.T., and aerospace companies such as Draper, TRW, Lockheed-Martin, MDA and Hughes.


Carl J. Meade

Prior to entering active duty in the United States Air Force, Meade was a Hughes Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and an electronics design engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City, California.


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