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PSI Acquires AEC-Able Engineering.

Advanced Materials & Composites News,  January, 2000  

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AEC-Able Engineering Co. Inc. (Able), a world leader in the design and manufacture of deployable booms, masts and antennas plus a full line of solar arrays, was acquired last summer by Pressure Systems Inc. (PSI) of City of Commerce. California. Able has used S-glass fiber reinforcement to make composite rods for use in its deployable antenna systems.

They are coiled into a drum for compact storage and then act like springs to project the antenna or solar collector out from the spacecraft. Able will continue operations in its current facilities in Goleta, Calif., doing business ...

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