Three contracts worth more than $10.8 million...

Three contracts worth more than $10.8 million have been received by Anaheim-based Odetics Inc. Under the agreements, announced Monday, Odetics will build space-borne digital magnetic tape recorders for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Martin Marietta Corp. and Laben of Milan, Italy.

NASA’s contract calls for Odetics to make three recorders for the space shuttle. So far, at least five company-manufactured recorders have flown on every shuttle mission, company officials said.

Martin Marietta, of Denver, has ordered three flight recorders to be used on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Venus Radar Mapper satellite to be launched by the space shuttle in 1988.

The Italian company ordered recorders to be used by the European Space Agency’s weather satellite program. That satellite, also to be launched in 1988, will explore coastal ocean conditions and global weather patterns.