Corporate Profile

Ecliptic provides systems for accessing and experiencing space and other extreme environments. We are a space-technology firm that produces the world's leading brand of onboard video and imaging systems for use with rockets, spacecraft and other remote platforms: RocketCam^TM. We also provide one of the most cost-effective systems for getting small payloads into space: RocketPod^TM.

We serve three growing and related markets:

• "Classic" aerospace, civil, scientific and R&D projects
• "Small, micro and nano" space efforts demanding affordable and responsive systems
• "Entrepreneurial" aerospace enterprises demanding unique space-themed imagery addressing space adventure/tourism, media, edutainment and advertising objectives

From past and current associations, we have an extensive network of world-class professionals from engineering, science, media, entrepreneurial and academic arenas who know how to get things done. As we face new challenges, we are proud to count them as reliable colleagues and collaborators.

Where is your vision focused? Earth orbit? Air, land or sea? Moon, Mars or near-Earth asteroids? Ecliptic's creative, nimble and proactive team is a resource that can help you take advantage of the opportunities presented by these rapidly growing and evolving markets.

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Company Facts

• Employee- and investor-owned small business located in Pasadena, California
• Combined staff experience based on dozens of actual space projects (not studies)
  • Earth-orbiting and deep-space missions
  • Shuttle-based missions/payloads
  • Launch systems
• Management has VP-level and major program/project-level experience at JPL, BlastOff! Corporation, SpaceDev, Microcosm, and other aerospace companies
  • Recipient of AIAA Space Systems Award (2002)
  • Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine Laurel awardee (1999)
  • On team that won Collier Trophy (2004)
  • On team that won a Peabody Award (2004)
• Certified as Boeing supplier (now ULA) for Delta II, III and IV programs
• Certified as Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems supplier (now ULA) for Atlas 2, 3 and 5 programs
• Certified as Orbital Sciences Corporation supplier for Minotaur program
• Producer of Ecliptic^® brand of aerospace products, including the RocketCam^TM line of onboard video systems and RocketPod^TM small payload carrier/deployer system
• Producer of Ecliptic^® brand of data-acquisition and -transport products
• Producer of Ecliptic^SM brand of turn-key engineering services
• Extensive network of world-class contacts in space community
• Ready access to Southern California aerospace, media, academic and entrepreneurial talent and capabilities

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Customer Base

Our business base includes prominent aerospace firms and organizations as well as leading entrepreneurial, unconventional, private and non-profit entities.

		Product Type
		RocketCamTM Systems	RocketPodTM Systems	Special Projects
	Rockets	Boeing Launch Services Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems Lockheed Martin Michoud Operations Applied Physics Lab Orbital Sciences Corp. United Space Alliance United Launch Alliance NASA Dryden NASA Marshall	DARPA Garvey Spacecraft Corporation A government agency	Two private launch companies Southwest Research Institute
	Spacecraft	Jet Propulsion Laboratory Spectrum Astro Orbital Sciences Corp. Ball Aerospace Austrian Aerospace The Planetary Society Team Encounter LLC Jackson and Tull Northrop Grumman Space Technology Planning Systems Inc. ATK Space Systems Aero Astro Canadian Space Agency Commercial LEO client Two commercial GEO clients NASA Ames NASA Goddard	Two government agencies	Orbital Sciences Corp. Spectrum Astro Jet Propulsion Laboratory Spectrum Astro ATK/Thiokol Propulsion QUALCOMM NASA Langley Alliance Spacesystems Inc. SpaceDev Univ. of California, Berkeley Musk Foundation QuakeFinder LLC Boeing Phantom Works
	Other Remote Platforms	Jet Propulsion Laboratory Scaled Composites The Aerospace Corporation QinetiQ XCOR Aerospace Utah State University Research Foundation Takeoff Technologies LLC CSI Productions ILC Dover		Jet Propulsion Laboratory Northrop Grumman Space Technology DARPA Swales Aerospace The Planetary Society Zero-G Corporation Thoughtventions idealab!/Evolution Robotics Cartwright Engineering ImagerLabs American Film Institute ILC Dover

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