Later the project was supported by J. Lyons & Co. Ltd., a British firm, who were rewarded with the first commercially applied computer, LEO I, based on the EDSAC design.

Overseen by Oliver Standingford and Raymond Thompson of J. Lyons and Co., and modelled closely on the Cambridge EDSAC, LEO I ran its first business application in 1951.

In 1954 Lyons formed LEO Computers Ltd to market LEO I and its successors LEO II and LEO III to other companies.

Lyons used LEO I initially for valuation jobs, but its role was extended to include payroll, inventory, and so on.

The LEO project was also a pioneer in outsourcing: in 1956, Lyons started doing the payroll calculations for Ford UK and others on the LEO I machine.

Met Office office staff used a LEO I before the Met Office bought its own computer, a Ferranti Mercury, in 1959.

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According to the Vision for Space Exploration, the next manned NASA program was to be Project Constellation with its Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles and the Orion Spacecraft ; however, the Constellation program was never fully funded, and in early 2010 the Obama administration asked Congress to instead endorse a plan with heavy reliance on the private sector for delivering cargo and crew to LEO.

** LEO I ' Lyons Electronic Office ' was the commercial development of EDSAC computing platform, supported by British firm J. Lyons and Co.

The most powerful variant of the family, Delta IV Heavy, is capable of delivering 25 tonnes of payload to LEO, matching the capability of the Ares I.

They, therefore, built their own programmable digital computers and became the first user of these in businesses, with the LEO I digital computer: the Lyons Electronic Office I, designed and built by Dr John Pinkerton under the able leadership of John Simmons.

The Minotaur I is an orbital launch system used to launch small satellites into low Earth orbit ( LEO ).

The Lyons machine was christened Lyons Electronic Office, or LEO.

In 1954, with the decision to proceed with LEO II and interest from other commercial companies, Lyons formed LEO Computers Ltd.

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Extract from Peter Bird's LEO — The First Business Computer ( 2002 ); at David Lawrence's Lyons website

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EE tried to take over one of the other major British electrical companies, the General Electric Company ( GEC ), in 1960 and, in 1963, EE and J. Lyons and Co. formed a jointly-owned company – English Electric LEO Company – to manufacture the LEO Computer developed by Lyons.

This was known as the ' Lyons Electronic Office ' - or LEO for short.

Between 1947 and 1963, the company manufactured and sold a range of LEO ( Lyons Electronic Office ) computers.

The first business application to be run on LEO was Bakery Valuations.

This was initially run as a test program on 5 September 1951, and LEO took over Bakery Valuations calculations completely on 29 November 1951.

LEO I's clock speed was 500 Hz, with most instructions taking about 1. 5 ms to execute.

The first LEO III was completed in 1961.

In 1963, LEO Computers Ltd was merged into English Electric Company and this led to the breaking up of the team that had inspired LEO computers.

Many users fondly remember the LEO III and enthuse about some of its quirkier features, such as having a loudspeaker connected to the central processor which enabled operators to tell whether a program was looping by the distinctive sound it made.

The winged Space Shuttle orbiter was launched vertically, usually carrying four to seven astronauts ( although eight have been carried ) and up to 50, 000 lb ( 22, 700 kg ) of payload into low Earth orbit ( LEO ).

Another LEO satellite constellation known as Teledesic, with backing from Microsoft entrepreneur Paul Allen, was to have over 840 satellites.

The altitude record for a human spaceflight in LEO was Gemini 11 with an apogee of.

The Yohkoh spacecraft at LEO observed the Sun from 1991 to 2001 in the X-ray portion of the solar spectrum and was useful for both research and space weather prediction.

On 24 July 1996, Cerise, a French microsatellite in a sun-synchronous LEO, was hit by fragments of an Ariane-1 H-10 upper-stage booster that had exploded in November 1986.

LEO was hardware tailored for a single client.

EELM was itself a merger of the computer divisions of English Electric, LEO and Marconi.

During the same period of time, LEO was struggling to produce its own machines that would be able to compete with IBM.

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( 1996, 1998 ) User-Driven Innovation ( published in the United States as LEO: The incredible Story of the World's first Business Computer ).

It inspired the world ’ s first business computer, LEO.

The first flight of the Falcon 9 with Merlin 1D engines will be an " weather research and communications satellite, launched into a highly elliptical low Earth orbit ( LEO ) for the Canadian Space Agency.

SpaceDev built and conducted early orbit operations of the Low Earth Orbit ( LEO ) microsat, the first to use only the Internet for its communications, for University of California at Berkeley under NASA's University Explorer Program ( UNEX ).

This lead to the development of a commercial version of EDSAC developed by Lyons, called LEO, the first computer used for commercial business applications.

The spacecraft will first be launched into an elliptical LEO parking orbit.

The first flight is expected to include an Atlas 5 rocket integrated with an unpiloted CST-100 capsule, to launch from Cape Canaveral's LC-41 in early 2015 into LEO.

Along with David Caminer, he designed England's first business computer, the LEO computer, produced by J. Lyons and Co in 1951.,