SAN DIEGO, CA, November 27, 2007 — Telemetry-West, a division of L-3 Communications, announced today that it has provided licenses of its InControl software application to Cornell University for the CUSat Nanosatellite program.  The InControl software product is a robust system designed to support satellite test and on-orbit operations.  InControl will provide the test executive for CUSat Assembly, Integration and Test (AI&T), as well as perform on-orbit operations.

“With the InControl software that L-3 has given us, we have the last major component needed to launch our satellite, without needing to make any changes to existing designs,” said Nate Parsons, Satellite Control Center Director at Cornell University.  “With the integration of InControl and the continued support that L-3 will provide, we are well on our way towards a successful mission.”

L-3 has provided InControl to the Cornell University CUSat facilities on the university’s campus in Ithaca, New York.  Key features of the software include routine satellite fleet and ground station control, use of flexible open system standards, such as CORBA, Java and Linux, and single or multiple operator control of multiple entities.  Archiving, archive retrieval and data analysis are also integrated within the functionality of the InControl software suite.  Key features for factory test include straightforward database integration, rapid development and validation of test sequences and automated report generation.

CUSat is a multi-year effort to design, build and launch an autonomous in-orbit inspection satellite system.  The CUSat space vehicle consists of two functionally identical satellites that will launch together and separate in orbit.  Using centimeter accuracy carrier-phase differential GPS, the two satellites will perform autonomous relative navigation.  One satellite will capture imagery of the other satellite and send these images to a ground station on earth where a 3-D model representation of each craft will be constructed.  Doing so will demonstrate how one spacecraft can diagnose the structural health and configuration of another – a capability that will help enable commercial, government and manned space missions envisioned for the coming decades.  The team has won first place in the University Nanosatellite 4 program sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.  As the winner of the program competition, CUSat has been awarded a no-cost launch by NASA, currently scheduled for October of 2009.

L-3 Telemetry-West offers end-to-end solutions for spacecraft command and control, payload processing, satellite integration and system test as well as remote equipment monitor and control.  These solutions are characterized by the ability of a single system to control constellations comprised of several different types and models of spacecraft.  Customers include Boeing Satellite Systems, EADS Astrium, Inmarsat, several Lockheed Martin divisions, NASA, JHU/APL, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Shin Satellite, Space Systems/Loral, Telespazio and the U.S. Air Force.  Additionally, L-3 Telemetry-West is the world’s premier provider of airborne, ground and spaceborne payload and telemetry components and systems, as well as tactical intelligence receivers, military HF/SSB systems and microwave radios.

To learn more about L-3 Telemetry-West, please visit the company's web site at www.L-3Com.com/tw.

Headquartered in New York City, L-3 Communications employs over 63,000 people worldwide and is a prime system contractor in aircraft modernization and maintenance, C3ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) systems and government services.  L-3 is also a leading provider of high technology products, systems and subsystems.  The company reported 2006 sales of $12.5 billion. 

To learn more about L-3, please visit the company’s web site at www.L-3Com.com.

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