L-3 Communications to Build Remote Sensing Satellite Antenna System for the Australian Surveying and Land Information Group.Business/Technology Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2001 L-3 Communications (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :LLL LLL abbr. left lower lobe (of the lung) ) today announced that its EMP EMP abbr. electromagnetic pulse Systems division has received an award to supply an X-band satellite tracking antenna system to the Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (AUSLIG AUSLIG Australian Surveying Land and Information Group ) for its Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (ACRES) ground station. EMP Systems will deliver this new antenna for installation at the ACRES Data Acquisition Facility located in the Australian Outback, near Alice Springs. Delivery is scheduled for December of 2001. "This is a significant win for EMP Systems and we are pleased to have our antenna system chosen for one of the world's leading remote sensing data centers," said Robert Rashkin, general manager of L-3 Communications' EMP Systems. "This award further establishes EMP Systems as an emerging leader in the Remote Sensing Satellite ground station industry, a market of over $100 million per year. Our unique three-axis antenna provides an economical solution for remote sensing satellite data acquisition." L-3's Model 150 X-band antenna is 5.0 meters in diameter and provides the ability to track and receive image data signals from a wide array of satellites including RADARSAT-1, LANDSAT, SPOT, ERS ERS, n.pr See extended rotated side-bent. , and IRS-1C/D. This antenna system features an EMP Systems dual-drive, 3-axis positioner with a 5.0 meter antenna reflector, subreflector, and an X-band radio frequency feed mounted in a cassegrain configuration. Provided with the system is a microprocessor-based Antenna Control Unit (ACU ACU See: Asian currency units ), Model ACU-21. The ACU-21 permits system operation in Manual, Program Track, and Standby modes, as well as other sub-modes of operation. AUSLIG is Australia's National Mapping Agency and provides fundamental geographic information to support the mining, agricultural, transport, tourism, and communications industries, and defense, education, surveillance and emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' activities. The goal of ACRES, Australia's principal earth resource satellite ground station and data processing facility, is to maintain and periodically refresh a comprehensive archive of satellite remotely sensed data over Australia to help ensure that fundamental geographic information is available for the benefit of the Australian community. ACRES' primary functions are to acquire, catalogue, archive, process and distribute remotely sensed data acquired from earth observation satellites Partial list of Earth observation satellites by series/program.
EMP Systems, a division of L-3 Communications located in Simi Valley, CA, is a leader in designing and producing telemetry and satellite communication systems worldwide. EMP Systems also provides airborne, shipboard, and ground based telemetry receiving, processing, and transmitting systems for the testing of aircraft, missiles and other airborne vehicles. Headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , L-3 Communications is a leading merchant supplier of secure communications systems and products, avionics and ocean products, training products, microwave components and telemetry, instrumentation, space and wireless products. Its customers include the Department of Defense, selected U.S. government intelligence agencies, aerospace prime contractors and commercial telecommunications and wireless customers. To learn more about L-3 Communications, please visit the company's web site at www.L-3Com.com. Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995: Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements set forth above involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from any such statement, including the risks and uncertainties discussed in the company's Safe Harbor Compliance Statement for Forward-looking Statements included in the company's recent filings, including Forms 10-K and 10-Q, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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