B&A Engineering Systems, Inc.

B&A Engineering Delivers Space Flight Hardware

12/1/08

B&A Engineering is pleased to announce the delivery of Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) Instrument Digital board and FPGA. B&A Engineering developed the Digital board and the FPGA for NASA/JPL.

MSL is scheduled to launch in the fall of 2011 and is part of long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. MSL is a rover that will assess whether Mars ever, or is still today, an environment able to support microbial life. Its mission is to determine the planet’s “habitability.”

CheMin will identify and measure the abundances of various minerals on Mars. Using CheMin, scientists will be able to study further the role that water, an essential ingredient for life as we know it, played in forming minerals on Mars.

For more information on NASA and its program, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

For more information about NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) center, visit:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov