Mariner Mission to Venus :: APPENDIX SUBCONTRACTORS

APPENDIX SUBCONTRACTORS

Thirty-four subcontractors to JPL provided instruments and other hardware for Mariners I and II.

The subcontractors were:

Aeroflex Corporation Long Island City, New York	Jet vane actuators
American Electronics, Inc. Fullerton, California	Transformer-rectifiers for flight telecommunications
Ampex Corporation Instrumentation Division Redwood City, California	Tape recorders for ground telemetry and data handling equipment
Applied Development Corporation Monterey Park, California	Decommutators and teletype encoders for ground telemetry equipment
Astrodata, Inc. Anaheim, California	Time code translators, time code generators, and spacecraft signal simulators for ground telemetry equipment
Barnes Engineering Company Stamford, Connecticut	Infrared radiometers Planet simulator
Bell Aerospace Corporation Bell Aerosystems Division Cleveland, Ohio	Accelerometers and associated electronic modules
Computer Control Company, Inc. Framingham, Massachusetts	Data conditioning systems

Conax Corporation Buffalo, New York	Midcourse propulsion explosive valves Squibs
Consolidated Electrodynamics Corp. Pasadena, California	Oscillographs for data reduction
Consolidated Systems Corporation Monrovia, California	Scientific instruments Operational support equipment
Dynamics Instrumentation Company Monterey Park, California	Isolation amplifiers for telemetry Operational support equipment
Electric Storage Battery Company Missile Battery Division Raleigh, North Carolina	Spacecraft batteries
Electro-Optical Systems, Inc. Pasadena, California	Spacecraft power conversion equipment
Fargo Rubber Corporation Los Angeles, California	Midcourse propulsion fuel tank bladders
Glentronics, Inc. Glendora, California	Power supplies for data conditioning system
Groen Associates Sun Valley, California	Actuators for solar panels
Houston Fearless Corporation Torrance, California	Pin pullers
Kearfott Division General Precision, Inc. Los Angeles, California	Gyroscopes
Marshall Laboratories Torrance, California	Magnetometers and associated operational support equipment
Matrix Research and Development Corporation Nashua, New Hampshire	Power supplies for particle flux detectors
Menasco Manufacturing Company Burbank, California	Midcourse propulsion fuel tanks and nitrogen tanks
Midwestern Instruments Tulsa, Oklahoma	Oscillographs for data reduction

Mincom Division Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Los Angeles, California	Tape recorders for ground telemetry and data handling equipment
Motorola, Inc. Military Electronics Division Scottsdale, Arizona	Spacecraft command subsystems, transponders, and associated operational support equipment
Nortronics Division of Northrop Corporation Palos Verdes Estates, California	Attitude control gyro electronic, autopilot electronic, and antenna servo electronic modules, long-range Earth sensors and Sun sensors
Ransom Research Division of Wyle Laboratories San Pedro, California	Verification and ground command modulation equipment
Rantec Corporation Calabasas, California	Transponder circulators and monitors
Ryan Aeronautical Company Aerospace Division San Diego, California	Solar panel structures
Spectrolab Division of Textron Electronics, Inc. North Hollywood, California	Solar cells and their installation and electrical connection on solar panels
State University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa	Calibrated Geiger counters
Sterer Engineering & Manufacturing Company North Hollywood, California	Valves and regulators for midcourse propulsion and attitude control systems
Texas Instruments, Inc. Apparatus Division Dallas, Texas	Spacecraft data encoders and associated operational support equipment, ground telemetry demodulators
Trans-Sonic, Inc. Burlington, Massachusetts	Transducers

In addition to these subcontractors, over 1,000 other industrial firms contributed to the Mariner Project.

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