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Article: Shuttle camera brings firm into focus.(Innovation)(Company overview)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 24, 2006
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Two minutes and 47 seconds into the July 4 launch of the space shuttle Discovery, NASA engineers at Cape Kennedy realized four pieces of external foam on the fuel tank had fallen away and may have punctured the ship's heat shield files.
But they were able to determine the files were intact--and the mission was still on track--thanks in part to film footage from three small cameras assembled by Pasadena-based Ecliptic Enterprises Corp. The cameras were mounted on each of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters and on the external fuel tank.
This five-year-old company, founded by space industry veterans, has made a name for itself as one of the premier ...