SCIENCE/ TECHNOLOGY
Recording contracts: Odetics, a high-tech manufacturer in Anaheim, has won contracts to build 12 of its space recorders worth $28.8 million.
Under a contract with Nippon Electric Co. in Japan, Odetics will deliver 10 space recorders for use in an observation satellite program. The company will also deliver two space recorders to the applied physics laboratory of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
The space recorders, used aboard satellites and other spacecraft, are sensor systems that collect data on tape and store it for transmission back to earth.
The contract with Nippon Electric, valued at $18 million, is the largest single contract ever won by Odetics’ space division. The space recorders will be used in Japan’s Advanced Earth Observation Satellite program.
The contract with Johns Hopkins, worth $10.8 million, will provide recorders to be used on an experiment for the Strategic Defense Initiative, the missile defense system popularly known as Star Wars.
