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HEICO Corporation Congratulates NASA and JPL on Successful Mars Perseverance Landing on Which Four Subsidiaries Supplied Components
February 19, 2021 GMT
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. & MIAMI (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 19, 2021
HEICO Corporation (NYSE: HEI.A) (NYSE: HEI) today congratulated NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and their partners on the successful Mars Perseverance Rover Landing yesterday, February 18, 2021. Once again, NASA and JPL demonstrated remarkable talent and capabilities despite a year of great challenges for the world’s population and they remain a beacon of optimism for all people.
In addition, HEICO provided details about the mission-critical flight hardware which four different HEICO subsidiaries supplied for the mission. The HEICO subsidiaries supplying mission-critical flight hardware are: Apex Microtechnology, Sierra Microwave Technology, 3D PLUS and VPT, Inc., all of whi
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The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers). Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California at 3:55 p.m. EST (12:55 p.m. PST).
Packed with groundbreaking technology, the Mars 2020 mission launched July 30, 2020, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Perseverance rover mission marks an ambitious first step in the effort to collect Mars samples and return them to Earth.
“This landing is one of those pivotal moments for NASA, the United States, and space exploration globally – when we know we are on the cusp of discovery and sharpening our pencils, so to speak, to rewrite the textbooks,” said acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk. “The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission embodies our nation’s spirit of persevering even in the mo
NASA’s 2,263-pound (1,026-kilogram) robotic vehicle descended on western edge of Isidis on Thursday as JPL made an official announcement in its mission control
Perseverance pays off
An illustration of the last, critical stage of Mars Perseverance rover s safe landing. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech
NASA’s perseverance rover- It started with the type of chatter you might hear from someone setting up a complex sound system.
“Voice check, Smith.”
“Telemetry?”
“I read you…”
Lots of names (not actually named Smith and Jones). Calm, measured voices from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, plus others chiming in by laptop and phone from around the world.
But the calm overlaid an underlying tension.
Because even before the sound checks, there’s also been another bit of control room chatter.
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