RCA & GE

RCA Astro-Electronics, GE Astro Space, GE Aerospace

RCA Astro-Electronics was a satellite integration company starting out in the fifties. It was bought by General Electric and later merged into the Lockheed Martin Space division.

Alouette

The RCA Astro-Electronics division did its first work on the Canadian Alouette and ISIS programs and became a major satellite producer at the start of the space age, including the first TIROS weather satellites. One of its engineers was selected to fly on the STS-61-C Space Shuttle flight as a civilian payload specialists for the RCA Americom Satcom KU-1 launch.

GE Astro Space

The RCA Astro-Electronics Division was reaquired by General Electric in 1985 and renamed GE Astro Space. It built the IABS (Integrated Apogee Boost Stage), flying on Atlas-II, IIA and Delta IV, and its associated DSCS III (Defense Satellite Communications System) satellites, also flying on Titan-34D and Shuttle without the IABS. The GE Aerospace Division built aerospace equipment and satellites for the military and government.

Lockheed Martin Space

GE Astro Space, together with GE Aerospace, was sold to Martin Marietta in 1993, which merged into Lockheed Martin in 1995 closing the facility in 1998.

Atlas Rocket Family
The Atlas rockets were a Convair development of the SM-65 Atlas missile, which was first tested on December 17, 1957. Having no inherent structural stability, the core sustainer stage needed to be pressurized when vertical.
Thor-Delta Rocket Family
The Thor-Delta family of rockets first launched in 1958 and lofted a multitude of satellites, space probes and spacecraft. It evolved from the PGM-17 Thor IRBM booster into the Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle.
Alouette 1
Alouette (French for Skylark) was Canada's first satellite, and the first satellite not built by the US or USSR.
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