Luna Innovations' Electronics used in Successful Demonstration Flight Test of Missile Defense Interceptors
17 Julho 2008 - 9:50AM
Business Wire
Luna Innovations� (NASDAQ:LUNA) multi-year program with the Missile
Defense Agency (MDA) passed a major development milestone last week
with the announcement from MDA Director Lieutenant General Henry
�Trey� Obering of the successful technology-demonstration flight
test from the NASA Wallops Flights Facility, Virginia. This
exercise, identified as the Next Generation Sensor Producibility
flight test (NGSP-01), occurred on June 26, 2008 at 3:57 p.m.
Eastern Daylight Time and successfully demonstrated the performance
of emerging sensor technologies, materials, and designs that offer
improvements for next-generation missile defense interceptors, or
�kill vehicles�. Kill vehicles are designed to intercept incoming
ballistic missile warheads outside the earth�s atmosphere and
destroy them by means of high speed collision. Luna provided low
cost sensor and data communications electronics for use in this
test of multiple elements of next-generation kill vehicles for
ballistic missile defense. Currently, kill vehicles are expensive
to design and manufacture due to the many customized components
required for a particular mission to accommodate different sensors
and non-standard subsystem interfaces. Luna�s sensor electronics
and data communications could substantially reduce integration and
development costs. During the exercise, a Black Brant XI sounding
rocket carried a payload consisting of multiple optical and
infrared sensors, along with various objects. Upon reaching the
desired altitude in the exo-atmosphere, the objects were ejected to
present a viewing scene for the sensors under test. Data collected
during NGSP-01 will undergo thorough analysis and be evaluated for
use in the development of future missile defense interceptor kill
vehicles. The NGSP-01 experiment was not a weapon system exercise.
About Luna Innovations: Luna Innovations Incorporated
(www.lunainnovations.com) develops and manufactures new-generation
products for the healthcare, telecommunications, energy and defense
markets. Our products are used to measure, monitor, protect and
improve critical processes in the markets we serve. Through its
disciplined commercialization business model, Luna has become a
recognized leader in transitioning science to solutions. Luna is
headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia. Forward Looking Statements:
This release includes information that constitutes �forward-looking
statements� made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including
statements regarding, but not limited to: Luna�s designs� abilities
to offer improvements for next-generation missile defense
interceptors, Luna�s electronics� and data communications� ability
to substantially reduce integration and development costs, and
Luna�s role in the development of future missile defense
interceptor kill vehicles. Statements that describe the Company�s
business strategy, goals, prospects, opportunities, outlook, plans
or intentions are also forward looking statements. Actual results
may differ materially from the expectations expressed in such
forward-looking statements as a result of various factors,
including risks and uncertainties set forth in the company�s
periodic reports and other filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Such filings are available at the SEC�s website at
http://www.sec.gov, and at the company�s website at
http://www.lunainnovations.com. The statements made in this release
are based on information available to the company as of the date of
this release and Luna Innovations undertakes no obligation to
update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this
release.
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