• service. HughesNet has over a million subscribers in the Americas in late 2023, down from 1.4 million in early 2022. Hughes Communications was founded...
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    The Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded on February 14, 1934 by Howard Hughes in Glendale, California...
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    Finola Hughes (born 29 October 1959) is a British actress, best known for her role as Anna Devane on the ABC soap operas General Hospital and All My Children...
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  • On February 14, 2011, EchoStar announced that it would acquire Hughes Communications in a deal valued at US$1.3 billion. On January 31, 2017, EchoStar...
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    SBS 3 (satellite) (category Communications satellites)
    SBS 3 was a geostationary communications satellite designed and manufactured by Hughes (now Boeing) on the HS-376 platform. It was ordered by Satellite...
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    In 1948 Hughes created a new division of Hughes Aircraft: the Hughes Aerospace Group. The Hughes Space and Communications Group and the Hughes Space Systems...
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  • John Wilden Hughes Jr. (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He began his career in 1970 as an...
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  • Syncom (category Communications satellites)
    of which were developed and manufactured by the Space and Communications division of Hughes Aircraft Company (now the Boeing Satellite Development Center)...
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    under its Exede brand. In 2007, Hughes Communications started deploying Ka band VSAT sites for consumers under its HughesNet brand on the Spaceway 3 satellite...
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  • Galaxy 1 (category Communications satellites)
    Galaxy 1 was the first in a line of Galaxy communications satellites launched by Hughes Communications in 1983. It helped fill a hole in satellite broadcasting...
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    at 12:32 a.m. EST (05:32 UTC) on April 27, appeared as follows: Hughes Communications, owner of the Galaxy 1 satellite, immediately noticed the jamming...
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  • HTN Communications, better known as Hughes Television Network (HTN) and formerly Sports Network, was an American television network created by Richard...
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    units within Hughes Electronics Corp.: Hughes Space and Communications Co., Hughes Electron Dynamics, and Spectrolab Inc., in addition to Hughes Electronics'...
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  • subsidiary Hughes Communications. In January 2006, DirecTV sold its remaining 50% share in Hughes Network Solutions to SkyTerra for $100 million. Hughes Communications...
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  • Catherine Liggins Hughes (born Catherine Elizabeth Woods; April 22, 1947) is an American entrepreneur, radio and television personality and business executive...
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  • together Boeing satellite operations with that of GM Hughes Electronics' Space and Communications division in El Segundo, California. The facility was...
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  • Galaxy (satellite) (category Communications satellite constellations)
    The Galaxy series is a family of communications satellites originally developed and operated by Hughes Communications. It has since merged with PanAmSat...
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  • designation of the Sikorsky R-4 helicopter Hughes Network Systems, a subsidiary of Hughes Communications Huizhou Nanshan School, a private primary and...
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    utility civilian and military helicopters. The MD 500 was developed from the Hughes 500, a civilian version of the US Army's OH-6A Cayuse/Loach. The series...
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    communications satellite launched from Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-51-G on 17 June 1985. Owned by AT&T and operated by Loral Skynet Hughes Communications...
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    company began in 1947, as a unit of Hughes Aircraft, then was part of the Hughes Tool Company after 1955. It became the Hughes Helicopter Division, Summa Corporation...
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    Christopher Hughes (born November 26, 1983) is an American entrepreneur and author who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory...
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    The Hughes H-4 Hercules (commonly known as the Spruce Goose; registration NX37602) is a prototype strategic airlift flying boat designed and built by the...
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  • Denver, Colorado. From the station, the signal was transmitted via Hughes Communications' Galaxy 7 satellite, which uploaded at 1.435 GHz and downloaded...
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    rocket, and an Atlas V carried the EchoStar XIX communications satellite on behalf of Hughes Communications. In March 2017, WGS-9 was orbited by a Delta...
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    The Hughes XF-11 (redesignated XR-11 in 1948) was a prototype military reconnaissance aircraft designed and flown by Howard Hughes and built by Hughes Aircraft...
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  • Johnson Nutrition Ltd. Partho Banerjee, former president, CEO and MD, Hughes Communications India Limited Pawan Malhotra, managing director, Mahindra Lifespaces...
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    the HS-601) is a retired communications satellite bus designed in 1985 and introduced in 1987 by Hughes Space and Communications Company. The series was...
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  • Claire Diane Hughes is a Welsh Labour politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bangor Aberconwy since 2024. Hughes worked as head...
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    The Hughes OH-6 Cayuse is a single-engine light helicopter designed and produced by the American aerospace company Hughes Helicopters. Its formal name...
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