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L-3 Communications selects Advint for test of Ares spacecraft

 
Effort encompasses Engineering Services for the design and development of Automatic Test Systems

Advint has been selected by L-3 Communications, a leading defense company, to assist in the design and programming of automatic test systems in support of NASA's Ares I launch vehicle avionics. The launch vehicle avionics include the Booster Control Unit, Power Distribution Unit, Data Acquisition/Recorder Unit, Data Recovery Unit, Hydraulic Power Unit Controller, Ignition Separation Controller, and Recovery Control Unit. The project includes development of electro-mechanical interface designs, equipment fabrication, software development, and systems integration in support of factory test of the Ares avionics.

Ares I is the crew launch vehicle being developed by NASA as a component of Constellation Program. NASA plans to use Ares I to launch Orion, the spacecraft being designed for NASA human spaceflight missions after the Space Shuttle is retired in 2010. Ares I will complement the larger, unmanned Ares V, which is the cargo launch vehicle for Constellation. NASA selected the Ares designs for their anticipated overall safety, reliability and cost-effectiveness. Ares I and V are named after the Greek deity Ares, who is identified with the Roman god Mars.

Ares Crew Launch Vehicle (CLV)

Cincinnati Electronics offers leadership in the design and production of innovative infrared sensors, hybrid microelectronics and cryogenics for autonomous guidance, situational awareness, threat warning and targeting. Battlespace commanders are afforded increased combat effectiveness for legacy platforms and sensor overmatch for future combat systems. The business also specializes in the design, development and production of avionics and communications products for missiles, launch vehicles and spacecraft, and is completing its fifth decade of contributing to the success of US space endeavors.


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About L-3 Communications

L-3 Communications is headquartered in New York City. The company employs over 65,000 people worldwide and is a prime system contractor in aircraft modernization and maintenance, C3ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) systems and government services. L-3 is also a major provider of homeland defense products and services for a variety of emerging markets. The company also is a leading merchant supplier of guidance and navigation products and systems, sensors, scanners, fuzes, data links, propulsion systems, avionics, electro optics, satellite communications, electrical power equipment, encryption products, signal intelligence, antennas and microwave products. L-3 Communications has grown very quickly into the sixth largest defense company in the United States with reported 2008 sales of $14.9 billion.  

 

About Advint

Advint is a rapidly growing system integrator of automated test systems located in Columbus, OH.  The company is an NI Alliance Member, a member of the Teradyne Support Network, and part of the Huntron Integration Service Network.  Advint provides hardware/software development and systems integration services in support of the test & measurement, and industrial automation industries.

 

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