Posted on 01/26/2005 6:30:15 PM PST by KevinDavis
To support NASA's space exploration vision, Honeywell is positioning itself for a major business push that company officials hope might culminate with the company vying to be the prime contractor for a future lunar base.
Honeywell's work in space is focused largely on subsystems such as electronics, avionics, and mechanical systems for launch vehicle control. When NASA returns to the moon, however, Honeywell believes its experience in earthbound industrial control and knowledge management could make it a strong candidate to run a lunar facility, according to Deborah Barnhart, vice president for space exploration at Honeywell's Aerospace Electronic Systems in Clearwater, Fla.
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Totally unrelated... or maybe not. I am in the trash business and before we sold the Commercial end of the business out, Honeywell here was our biggest customer. (We still do Residential and Industrial hauling)
They must be good.. I guess I don't know that much about them.
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We get the momentum wheels and digital precision gyroscopes for our spacecraft from them and we're looking at some additional components. They are good. Their stuff flies on just about every space vehicle there is.
Excellent.. I hope NASA chooses them.
Sounds good! All this talk about going to the moon makes me very hopeful about the future of space!
We get some of our gyros from Honeywell, too. We make our own momentum wheels, however. :)
Well, maybe, as long as they don't need process control. If they need batch processes on the moon, it needs to go to Rockwell instead (you remember them; in a former life they built the Space Shuttle). :-p
We make our own momentum wheels, however. :)
I hear the guy that did the software on the NASA wheels is kind of a right-wing nut, though.
It could be Honeywell. GE is another possibility. Haliburton, too. HAL. LOL
Maybe they will buy Fairchild electronics to help. The new company could be call Fairwell-Honeychild.
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