U.S. Electrodynamics Earth Station, Washington

U.S. Electrodynamics (USEI) purchased this former COMSAT site in Brewster in 1987, and has developed it further. Voice, data, and video is transmitted and received at the earth station, a vital communications link for several international corporate users of the facility. Serving mostly as a transfer station between Asian nations and the United States, signals going through the more than 50 antennas at the site include video feeds from journalists filing international reports to American television networks, financial and corporate data, and American television programs beamed to foreign markets. Brewster also provides air traffic control services for the FAA, Sea Launch, as well as assorted services for the DOD. In 1965, COMSAT built its first Pacific Region earth station here at Brewster. The COMSAT Corporation was a product of the Communications Satellite Act of 1962, and was tasked with promoting and developing both domestic and international satellite communication systems.