The 99 acres (40 ha) Engineering and Research Center campus was located on Jamboree Road at Ford Road, overlooking Balboa Bay and the Santa Catalina Strait of the Pacific Ocean in Newport Beach.
[1][2] The facility's master plan and main buildings were designed by Modernist architect William Pereira in 1958.
[1] It became NASA's primary communications equipment vendor during the 1960s, also building the consoles in the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.
After persistent technical problems and some $1.3 billion in development costs, in 1985 Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger canceled the program.
[4] In 1996, the Loral Space & Communications defense electronics and system integration businesses were acquired by Lockheed Martin.