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L-3 Coleman Aerospace Wins Contract for SRP-3 News Category: [Defence-Air]
(Orlando, Fla., March 26, 2008) -- L-3 Coleman Aerospace announced today that it has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force for the Sounding Rocket Program-3 (SRP-3). Coleman Aerospace will support the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), Space Development and Test Wing for this follow-on to the existing SRP-2 program. The contract will be performed over a seven-year period beginning in March 2008.
Under the SRP-3 contract, Coleman Aerospace will provide launch systems and services for sub-orbital ballistic trajectories in support of U.S. Air Force and other government customer experiments that are limited to a "down range" capability of less than 5,500 km. Launches may occur rom any government or commercial range worldwide and may be land, air or sea based. Coleman Aerospace will provide development, acquisition and delivery of missile guidance and control systems, payload systems, launch vehicle instrumentation systems, flight software, reentry vehicle configurations, test range support and associated launch services necessary to accomplish the SMC mission.
"We are extremely pleased SMC selected us to support this vital program," said Lou Deeter, president of L-3 Coleman Aerospace. "We look forward to continuing our successful relationship with the SMC Space Development and Test Wing."
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