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Honeywell Selected to Provide Network Services, Operations and Support for NASA Space Missions.


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COLUMBIA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2003

Honeywell (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
: HON)

    Satellite Constellation Network, Hubble Space Telescope, Solar
 Heliospheric Spacecraft, Space Station, Shuttle Programs Included in
                              Agreements

                Contracts Valued At Up To $1.7 Billion


Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today that it has been selected by NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NASA
 in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Independent U.S.
 for mission operation and support to provide data collection, services integration, systems engineering and development, flight dynamics support, and mission operations and flight dynamics technology development.

The two indefinite quantity contracts are anticipated to be worth up to approximately $1.7 billion. The Goddard Space Flight Center The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center. GSFC employs approximately 10,000 civil servants and contractors, and is located approximately 6.5 miles northeast of Washington, D.C.  mission operation and support contract period is five years with a limited two-year extension; the Earth network services contract covers a five-year period.

"Honeywell's mission support will include pre-launch conceptual studies and planning, on-orbit flight controls and final decommissioning Decommissioning is a general term for a formal process to remove something from operational status. Some specific instances include:
  • Ship decommissioning
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 at the Goddard Space Flight Center," said Garrett Mikita, President, Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. "This includes robotics science missions and support for the Solar Heliospheric (SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. ) spacecraft, which performs observations of the sun. We also will provide support and maintenance for the Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the first large optical orbiting observatory. Built from 1978 to 1990 at a cost of $1.5 billion, the HST (named for astronomer E. P. Hubble) was expected to provide the clearest view yet obtained of the universe.  program and satellites that examine the Earth's atmospheric content."

For the Earth network services agreement, Honeywell will provide program management, ground and space network operations, systems engineering, hardware and software development, and maintenance and support.

"This includes NASA's ground network, including suborbital suborbital /sub·or·bi·tal/ (sub-or´bi-t'l) infraorbital.

sub·or·bit·al
adj.
Situated on or below the floor of the orbit of the eye.

n.
 operations, and the Tracking Data Relay Satellite System, a constellation of nine satellites that is the primary architecture of the communications system for the Space Shuttle, International Space Station programs and Hubble Space Telescope," Mikita said.

Honeywell's support operations will be located at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and Earth network services at GSFC GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA; Greenbelt, MD, USA)
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, the White Sands Complex in Las Cruces, N.M., and Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Va.

Honeywell International is a diversified technology and manufacturing leader based in Morris Township, N.J. With 2002 revenues of $22 billion, the company serves customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; specialty chemicals; fibers; and electronic and advanced materials. The company's shares are traded on the New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, London, Chicago and Pacific Stock Exchanges. Honeywell is one of the 30 stocks that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average Dow Jones Industrial Average

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; it is also a component of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. For additional information, please visit www.honeywell.com.

Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. is a part of Honeywell's aerospace business, which is headquartered in Phoenix. It is a leading global provider of integrated avionics, engines, systems and service solutions for aircraft manufacturers, airlines, business and general aviation, military, space and airport operations.

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