EMS Technologies Inc. (Contracts).(Brief Article)

Microwave Journal, July, 2003

EMS Technologies Inc. announced a $1.25 M contract with NASA Dryden Flight Research Center to deliver a SATCOM antenna for Flight Demo 2 of NASA's Next Generation Launch Technology (NGLT) Space-based Telemetry and Range Safety project. As part of the NOLT, researchers are looking at technology that reduces the overall operational costs of supporting launches into space.

EMS Space and Technology/Atlanta will modify one of its advanced phase array antenna designs to allow operation with NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites. NASA plans to test the antenna on an F-15B Research Testbed aircraft in mid-2004. The antenna, when installed, will enable NASA to maintain a telemetry link to vehicles from CEO satellites instead of ground stations.