Hughes Electronics Corp.: Commercial (United States), launches, rockets and satellites

Industry / Companies / Hughes Electronics Corp.

0Orbital launches

0All launches (incl. suborbital)

12Satellites in orbit

194Satellites built

0Rockets / spacecraft

Hughes Electronics Corp. is a commercial company based in the United States, founded in 1985. Our records show 12 satellites in orbit.

Totals include the divisions, sites and subsidiaries listed under Structure below.

Divisions, sites and subsidiaries

Hughes Communications Inc. 0 orbital launches · 11 satellites in orbit Hughes Network Systems 0 orbital launches · 1 satellites in orbit Hughes Communications Services Inc. 0 orbital launches · 0 satellites in orbit Hughes Space and Comms. Co (Hughes Satellite Systems) 0 orbital launches · 0 satellites in orbit

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Delta swapping out Intelsat Wi-Fi for Hughes on 400 planes SpaceNews · 1 Nov 2023
Umbra and Hypergiant among firms selected for Air Force JADC2 contract SpaceNews · 16 Jul 2021
OneWeb raises $400 million SpaceNews · 15 Jan 2021
Hughes Network Systems to invest $50 million in revived OneWeb SpaceNews · 28 Jul 2020
Yahsat and Hughes Network Systems form partnership SpaceNews · 13 Sep 2018

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Provenance

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This entry merges 1 source: GCAT (J. McDowell)
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Launch and satellite data: Jonathan McDowell's GCAT (CC BY 4.0) and CelesTrak. Rockets, spacecraft and agencies: Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs and Wikidata. News headlines link to their publishers via the Spaceflight News API and RSS feeds. Records come from several sources and are matched automatically, so treat the directory as a research aid, not an authority. How the data is built and checked.