Space Systems/Loral (SS/L)' Senior Vice President of Engineering, Christopher Hoeber, has received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) distinction of Fellow. The AIAA cited that it is honoring Christopher Hoeber for his more than three decades of leadership in the design of leading-edge communications spacecraft and for his significant contributions to the AIAA and the understanding of space phenomena.

The AIAA is the world's largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession. Each year it confers the distinction of Fellow to outstanding members of the institute who have made notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics. Mr. Hoeber is one of 30 professionals that have been elected to Fellow status in 2010. As Senior Vice President of Program Management and Systems Engineering at SS/L, Mr. Hoeber leads the systems engineering and program management groups and oversees all of the company's research and development programs. He has a broad base of experience in systems test and engineering, and program and functional management and was the leader of the systems engineering team that developed SS/L's geostationary satellite platform, the modular 1300. He was also the program manager for the Superbird satellites, built for Space Communications (SCC) of Japan, which were the first implementation of this important and flexible satellite platform. Prior to joining SS/L in 1975, Mr. Hoeber was with Hughes Space and Communications Corp. for five years, where he led a group that performed payload testing of Intelsat IV and the first generation of domestic communications satellites.