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| WORLD'S LARGEST SATELLITE FACTORY -- With nearly 600,000 square feet of
manufacturing space, the Integrated Satellite Factory of Hughes Space and
Communications Company is the largest in the world. Pictured here is its
latest addition: a 63,000-cubic-foot, dual-capacity thermal vacuum
chamber. The door alone weighs 105 tons. The Integrated Satellite Factory
at Hughes, the world's leading manufacturer of geostationary commercial
communications satellites, is capable of simultaneously conducting four
spacecraft-level thermal vacuum tests, five nearfield antenna tests, and
two spacecraft-level thermal stress tests. Pictured here is JCSAT-6, an HS
601 communications satellite for Japan Satellite Systems, Inc. JCSAT-6 is
the first satellite to be tested in the new chamber, and is scheduled for
launch in the summer of 1998.
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