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class="noprint"></div> <div id="content" class="mw-body" role="main"> <a id="top"></a> <div id="siteNotice"></div> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en"><span dir="auto">Space Systems/Loral</span></h1> <div id="bodyContent" class="mw-body-content"> <div id="siteSub">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> <div id="contentSub"></div> <div id="jump-to-nav" class="mw-jump"> Jump to: <a href="#mw-head">navigation</a>, <a href="#p-search">search</a> </div> <div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><table class="infobox vcard" style="width:22em"> <caption class="fn org">Space Systems/Loral, LLC (SSL)</caption> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <div style="padding:0.1em 0;line-height:1.2em;"><a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_business_entity" title="Types of business entity">Type</a></div> </th> <td class="category" style="line-height:1.35em;"><a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">Subsidiary</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;">Industry</th> <td class="category" style="line-height:1.35em;"><a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace_engineering" title="Aerospace engineering">Aerospace</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;">Founded</th> <td style="line-height:1.35em;">1957</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;">Headquarters</th> <td class="label" style="line-height:1.35em;"><a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto" title="Palo Alto" class="mw-redirect">Palo Alto</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California">California</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;">Website</th> <td style="line-height:1.35em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150211030825/http://www.sslmda.com/">www.sslmda.com</a></td> </tr> </table> <p><b>Space Systems/Loral, LLC</b> (<b>SSL</b>, formerly <b>SS/L</b>), of <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto, California</a>, is a wholly owned manufacturing <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">subsidiary</a> of <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacDonald_Dettwiler" title="MacDonald Dettwiler" class="mw-redirect">MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA)</a>. SSL designs and builds satellites and space systems for a wide variety of government and commercial customers. Its products include high-powered direct-to-home broadcast satellites, commercial weather satellites, digital audio radio satellites and spot-beam satellites for data networking applications.</p> <p>On June 26, 2012 SS/L was acquired for $875 million by the Canadian aerospace company <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacDonald_Dettwiler" title="MacDonald Dettwiler" class="mw-redirect">MacDonald Dettwiler (MDA)</a>. SS/L was acquired in 1990 for $715 million by <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loral_Corp." title="Loral Corp." class="mw-redirect">Loral Corp.</a> from <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company" title="Ford Motor Company">Ford Motor Company</a> as the Space Systems Division of <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Aerospace" title="Ford Aerospace">Ford Aerospace</a>. The company was founded as the Western Development Laboratories (WDL) of <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philco" title="Philco">Philco</a> (Philco-Ford since 1966).</p> <p>SSL's customers include <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsiaSat" title="AsiaSat">AsiaSat</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirecTV" title="DirecTV">DirecTV</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EchoStar_Communications_Corporation" title="EchoStar Communications Corporation" class="mw-redirect">EchoStar</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutelsat" title="Eutelsat">Eutelsat</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalstar" title="Globalstar">Globalstar</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispasat" title="Hispasat">Hispasat</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Network_Systems" title="Hughes Network Systems" class="mw-redirect">Hughes Network Systems</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO_Global_Communications" title="ICO Global Communications" class="mw-redirect">ICO Global Communications</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat" title="Intelsat">Intelsat</a>, Japan <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTSAT" title="MTSAT" class="mw-redirect">MTSAT</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_stock_company" title="Joint stock company" class="mw-redirect">JSC</a> Gascom, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loral_Skynet" title="Loral Skynet" class="mw-redirect">Loral Skynet</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>/<a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA" title="NOAA" class="mw-redirect">NOAA</a> (<a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_Operational_Environmental_Satellite" title="Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite">GOES</a>), <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBN_Co" title="NBN Co">NBN Co</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optus" title="Optus">Optus</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PanAmSat" title="PanAmSat">PanAmSat</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=QuetzSat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="QuetzSat (page does not exist)">QuetzSat</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satmex" title="Satmex">Satmex</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SES_S.A." title="SES S.A.">SES S.A.</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SES_World_Skies" title="SES World Skies">SES World Skies</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Satellite" title="Shin Satellite" class="mw-redirect">Shin Satellite</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Satellite_Radio" title="Sirius Satellite Radio">Sirius Satellite Radio</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SpainSat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SpainSat (page does not exist)">SpainSat</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_One_(satellite_operator)" title="Star One (satellite operator)">Star One</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenor" title="Telenor">Telenor</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViaSat" title="ViaSat">ViaSat</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WildBlue" title="WildBlue" class="mw-redirect">WildBlue</a>, and <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM_Satellite_Radio" title="XM Satellite Radio">XM Satellite Radio</a>.</p> <p>In 1960, the <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_1B" title="Courier 1B">Courier 1B</a>, built by then Philco, became the world's first active repeater satellite.</p> <p>SSL has recently pioneered research in <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_propulsion" title="Electric propulsion" class="mw-redirect">electric propulsion</a> systems, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery" title="Lithium-ion battery">lithium-ion power systems</a> and the use of advanced composites on commercial satellites, which permit significant increases in the size and power of a satellite’s payload and extends the satellite’s on-orbit lifetime. SSL also has developed new service-enhancing technologies such as super power systems for direct-to-user applications and ground-based beam forming, a technology that uses both satellite and terrestrial assets to provide mobile users with increased coverage and capacity capabilities.</p> <p>SSL’s major competitors are <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Satellite_Systems" title="Boeing Satellite Systems" class="mw-redirect">Boeing Satellite Systems</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin" title="Lockheed Martin">Lockheed Martin</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales_Alenia_Space" title="Thales Alenia Space">Thales Alenia Space</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Defence_and_Space" title="Airbus Defence and Space">Airbus Defence and Space</a> and <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSC_Information_Satellite_Systems" title="JSC Information Satellite Systems">JSC Information Satellite Systems</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>.</p> <p></p> <div id="toc" class="toc"> <div id="toctitle"> <h2>Contents</h2> </div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#1300_series_platform"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">1300 series platform</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#COTS_proposal"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">COTS proposal</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <p></p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="1300_series_platform">1300 series platform</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Space_Systems/Loral&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: 1300 series platform">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LS-1300" title="LS-1300">LS-1300</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OptusC1.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150211030825im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/OptusC1.jpg/200px-OptusC1.jpg" width="200" height="155" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150211030825im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/OptusC1.jpg/300px-OptusC1.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150211030825im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/OptusC1.jpg/400px-OptusC1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="440" data-file-height="340"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OptusC1.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> Artist impression of <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optus_fleet_of_satellites#Optus_.28and_Defence.29_C1" title="Optus fleet of satellites" class="mw-redirect">Optus C1</a>, built on the LS-1300 platform</div> </div> </div> <p>SS/L manufactures satellites based on its 1300 series platform in <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto, California</a>. Satellites in the series include <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProtoStar_I" title="ProtoStar I" class="mw-redirect">ProtoStar I</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO_G1" title="ICO G1" class="mw-redirect">ICO G1</a>, <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SIRIUS_FM-6&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SIRIUS FM-6 (page does not exist)">SIRIUS FM-6</a> and <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SES_NEW_SKIES_NSS-12&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SES NEW SKIES NSS-12 (page does not exist)">SES NEW SKIES NSS-12</a>. As of January 2008<sup class="plainlinks noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Space_Systems/Loral&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> there were 48 satellites based on the 1300 series platform in service, with 4 more ready for launch and 14 others under construction.<sup id="cite_ref-COTS_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-COTS-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="COTS_proposal">COTS proposal</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Space_Systems/Loral&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: COTS proposal">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>SSL and <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_Services_International" title="Constellation Services International">Constellation Services International</a> have proposed a reusable <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tug" title="Space tug">space tug</a> based on the 1300 platform and a pressure-fed, low-cost <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius_Launch_Vehicle" title="Aquarius Launch Vehicle" class="mw-redirect">Aquarius Launch Vehicle</a>. The tug would be used to bring supplies to the <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a> as part of the <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Orbital_Transportation_Services" title="Commercial Orbital Transportation Services">Commercial Orbital Transportation Services</a> (COTS) program.<sup id="cite_ref-COTS_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-COTS-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>NASA eventually decided to pursue another proposal for this project. SS/L, however, continues to provide Battery Orbital Replacement Units (ORUs), Battery Charge Discharge Units (BCDUs), and Sequential Shunt Units (SSUs) for the ISS.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Space_Systems/Loral&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace_manufacturer" title="Aerospace manufacturer">Aerospace manufacturer</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_manufacturers" title="List of spacecraft manufacturers">List of spacecraft manufacturers</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius_Launch_Vehicle" title="Aquarius Launch Vehicle" class="mw-redirect">Aquarius Launch Vehicle</a>, a pressure-fed, low-cost rocket</li> </ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Space_Systems/Loral&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <table class="metadata plainlinks ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"> <tr> <td class="mbox-image"> <div style="width:52px"><a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150211030825im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" width="50" height="39" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150211030825im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150211030825im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="262" data-file-height="204"/></a></div> </td> <td class="mbox-text"><span class="mbox-text-span">This article <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>. <span class="hide-when-compact">Please help <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Space_Systems/Loral&action=edit">improve this article</a> by <a href="/web/20150211030825/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing/1" title="Help:Introduction to referencing/1">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. 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