Irvine Sensors Will Supply Spacecraft Parts

Irvine Sensors Corp. said Thursday that it has won a contract to provide a Lockheed Corp. subsidiary with components for solid-state data recorders designed to replace tape recorders in satellites and other spacecraft.

The agreement with Lockheed Sanders Inc. in Nashua, N.H., marks the Costa Mesa firm’s first major contract for what it calls Memory Short Stacks, a super semiconductor that carries up to four memory microchips in the place of one.

Irvine Sensors, which developed sensing devices and computer electronics for military and commercial systems, plans to use an existing agreement with IBM to manufacture its microchips.

John Stuart, chief financial officer of Irvine Sensors, said he could not divulge details of the agreement except to say that it was a multiyear contract.