Michigan Aerospace Corporation



	September 7th, 2011 Contract Awarded for Device to Detect Contraband Radioactive Materials Researchers at Michigan Aerospace Corporation, in partnership with the University of New Hampshire’s Space Science Center (SSC), have been contracted by the federal Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to build a highly sensitive instrument that will detect illicit radioactive materials with pinpoint accuracy from a safe distance


	March 18th, 2011 NASA’S MESSENGER SPACECRAFT ENTERS ORBIT AROUND MERCURY MAC Provided Mechanical Design and Analysis for the University of Michigan’s Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer (FIPS) Instrument Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC), an advanced engineering and products company, provided key engineering work on an instrument aboard NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, which became the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury on March 17.


	December 10th, 2010 Michigan Aerospace Corporation Awarded NASA Contract for Short-Range Turbulence Sensor Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC), an advanced engineering and products company, today announced that it has been awarded a NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 contract to begin work on MAC’s Short-Range Clear Air Turbulence Sensor (SR-CATS) system. SR-CATS will use MAC’s exclusive Direct Detection Doppler Wind LIDAR (D3WL) technology to detect clear-air turbulence a few hundred feet ahead of aircraft, including airliners.