HEICO Corporation Congratulates NASA on Mars 2020/Perseverance Launch on Which 3 HEICO Subsidiaries Supplied Critical Hardware
30 Julho 2020 - 12:15PM
Business Wire
HEICO Corporation (NYSE: HEI.A) (NYSE: HEI) congratulated NASA
and JPL on the successful launch of the Mars 2020/Perseverance
mission this morning from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
aboard a ULA Atlas 541 rocket.
Three different HEICO subsidiaries — Sierra Microwave
Technologies, LLC, 3D PLUS and VPT, Inc.— all supplied critical
hardware for the mission. Mars 2020/Perseverance is designed to
better understand the geology of Mars and seek signs of ancient
life by collecting and storing rocks and soil samples for a future
return to Earth, while also testing new technology for robotic and
human space exploration.
The mission, which is managed by NASA’s Science Mission
Directorate and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory division of Caltech,
is expected to land the Perseverance rover on Mars on February 18,
2021.
VPT supplied DC-to-DC converters and EMI filters for
Perseverance, while 3D PLUS supplied numerous products, including
various Memory Modules, Latch-up Current Limiters, multiple
Interfaces and its unique CMOS space-qualified camera. Sierra
Microwave supplied microwave communications hardware on the
spacecraft.
Laurans A. Mendelson, HEICO’s Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, along with Victor H. Mendelson, HEICO’s Co-President and
Chief Executive Officer of its Electronic Technologies Group,
congratulated NASA, JPL, Sierra Microwave, VPT and 3D PLUS,
stating, “We congratulate the many remarkable people who
accomplished this first step in this incredible mission. We are
proud of the HEICO companies and Team Members who contributed to
the effort and are excited for the mission’s next stage.”
HEICO Corporation is engaged primarily in the design,
production, servicing and distribution of products and services to
certain niche segments of the aviation, defense, space, medical,
telecommunications and electronics industries through its
Hollywood, Florida-based Flight Support Group and its Miami,
Florida-based Electronic Technologies Group. HEICO's customers
include a majority of the world's airlines and overhaul shops, as
well as numerous defense and space contractors and military
agencies worldwide, in addition to medical, telecommunications and
electronics equipment manufacturers. For more information about
HEICO, please visit our website at http://www.heico.com.
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