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July 23, 2009

Fibertek, Inc. announced today the award of the Laser System Engineering Support contract from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to the Fibertek/Sigma Space team.
The Team is being contracted for the provision of services required to design, test, fabricate, deliver, operate, and evaluate Space Laser Systems for the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) Instrument for the ICESat II mission.

In its selection statement NASA noted the strength of Fibertek in the area of space-based lasers, the exemplary past performance of the Team, and the comprehensive capabilities of the Team in all areas of the statement of work.

“This award will enable our company to contribute key technologies and developments in the area of space-based lasers for use in the ATLAS instrument", said Dr. Floyd Hovis, VP of Fibertek. “Our partnership with Sigma Space will enable the Team to deliver extraordinary services and products to NASA for this mission”.

ICESat-II will use precision laser-ranging techniques to measure the topography of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and the thickness characteristics of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. According to the National Research Council's Decadal Survey on Earth Science and Applications from Space, the mission will fill an urgent need in understanding the Earth's rapidly changing ice cover.

Fibertek, Inc., based in Herndon, VA, is one of the premier suppliers of lasers and electro-optical sensor systems for the use in the demanding environments experienced by DOD and NASA instruments.

Fibertek, Inc.
Guy Beaghler, CEO

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