Heading: (Space Art)
Author:
Title: 10 Hughes Aircraft Color Satellite Posters
Place Published: (El Segundo, California)
Publisher:Hughes Aircraft Space and Communications Group
Date Published: ca. 1975-1995
Description:

10 color posters. 18x24".

From 1970s to the 1990s, Hughes issued striking color posters. with imaginative and idyllic Space drawings, for each of the satellites the company constructed, for American, Australian, Japanese, and Chinese government agencies and corporations.

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  AsiaSat, orbital launch (on a Chinese rocket) of the first of 9 AsiaSat satellites, most built by Hughes for the Chinese-owned Asia Satellite Communications Company


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  Galileo Probe, first spacecraft scheduled to enter the atmosphere of Jupiter


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  JCSAT (2 copies), Japan's first commercial communications satellite


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  UHF F/O - Ultra High Frequency Follow-On Satellite for the US Navy


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  WESTAR IV,V, VI, VII satellites built for the Western Union Company (2" tear in lower margin of poster repaired on verso with non-archival tape)


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  GMS-5, 5th Japanese Meteorologcal Satellite


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  MARISAT - World's 1st Maritime Telecommunications Satellite


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  AUSSAT-B (2 copies) - Asutralia's 2nd generation national satellite

One poster with 2" tear; overall very good.