Haigh-Farr, Inc., a leading manufacturer of high-performance aerospace antennas, is proud to announce that they have been awarded contracts to supply the Command, Telemetry, GPS, Iridium, Flight Safety, Radar Transponder, and TDRSS antennas for Space Exploration Technologies’ Falcon-9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft. Haigh-Farr also supplies RF hybrids and dividers to the SpaceX Falcon-1, Falcon-9, and Dragon Programs.
“We look forward to further establishing our relationship with SpaceX and providing the key telemetry, command, and flight safety system antennas for the Falcon-9 and Dragon space programs. This represents another milestone toward expanding Haigh-Farr’s presence in space related programs, following previous antenna deployments on numerous space vehicles including United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V launch vehicle, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander, SpaceShipOne, and many others”, stated David Farr, Haigh-Farr CEO.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk commented on the subcontract award, “the SpaceX Falcon and Dragon programs are driving performance and reliability up, and cost and schedule down. We selected Haigh-Farr because of their recognized ability to supply high performance antennas matching these aggressive goals.”
For additional information on Space Exploration Technologies, please refer to their web site: www.spacex.com |
We are pleased to welcome Ron Sisco to the Haigh-Farr team as our Vice President of Business
Development. In his new role, Ron will be leading the sales and marketing efforts for Haigh-Farr and
will serve as technical point of contact for customers and reps. Ron brings over 20 years of experience in
the semiconductor industry where he held positions in design engineering, applications engineering, sales
and sales management. Ron joins us from LSI Logic where he was most recently Regional Sales
Manager with responsibility for the Northeast and Canada. Prior to LSI, Ron worked at IBM in
semiconductor operations. Ron holds a BSEE from Lehigh University and an MBA from Babson
College.
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