Comtech Telecommunications Corp.’s (NASDAQ:CMTL) Virginia-based subsidiary, Comtech AeroAstro, Inc., has been awarded a $37.9M contract from the United States Navy’s Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to develop and deliver the spacecraft bus for the Joint Milli-Arcsecond Pathfinder Survey (JMAPS) mission by March 2012. This contract is based on a Phase III SBIR award.
The NRL contract also has $4.2M in options for post-delivery technical support that could be exercised. The JMAPS mission is primarily intended to update the star position catalog for critical national security and civil applications. The JMAPS space vehicle uses Comtech AeroAstro’s Astro 200AS bus to host the JMAPS instrument over a 3-year mission life. Evolved from spacecraft developed for the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program, STPSat-1 and STPSat-2, the Astro 200AS provides unparalleled stability and pointing accuracy for a vehicle in its size class.
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