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1990 GE ASTRO SPACE Promo Film (Lockheed Martin Aerospace, Spy Satellites, RCA Defense NASA Space)

This is a Vintage 1990 GE ASTRO SPACE Promo Film, partially restored. A 5 min GE film featuring a variety of GE Astro Space products and technical achievements. Full color, narrated. An excellent historical look back 32 years just before GE Astro Space was purchased by Martin Marietta (later Lockheed Martin). Topics: General Electric, Astro Space, Aerospace, Space Satellites, Tiros, Martin Marietta, space exploration, space shuttle, NASA, Electronics, solar panels, solar power, solar satellite, earth satellite, VTOL vertical take off aircraft, jet aircraft, Mars, Boeing, GE Engines Background History In April 1958, President Eisenhower authorized the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), largely in response to the Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite in October 1957. By that time, RCA was already deeply involved in space research. Its first space research team was formed in 1957 with scientists and engineers from the Advanced Technology Laboratories in Camden, New Jersey and RCA Laboratories. In March 1958, RCA established Astro Electronic Products (AEP) as a division of RCA Defense Electronic Products. AEP was renamed the Astro-Electronics Division (AED), and housed at the David Sarnoff Research Center, but moved to new facilities nearby later. The New Jersey facility was also referred to as the RCA Space Center. On December 18, 1958, RCA’s first satellite was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral. It was called SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment), the world’s first communications satellite. In line with RCA’s expertise in communications, AED designed and built dozens of communications satellites over the next few decades. After GE acquired RCA in 1986, it combined AED with the Spacecraft Operations of its Space Systems Division to form the GE Astro Space Division. In 1993 the unit was sold to Martin Marietta and for a time the facility was called “Martin Marietta Astro Space.” In 1995, Martin Marietta merged with Lockheed Corporation to form Lockheed Martin In 1998, Lockheed closed the original New Jersey facility that had began as RCA Astro Electronics and consolidated of all of the merged corporation's satellite operations to Sunnyvale, California. (adapted from Hagley Museum and Library web site and other sources) Please help us complete the history. If you know more about the GE Astro Space division, please feel free to comment. Thank you! ~ CHAP