APPENDIX SUBCONTRACTORS
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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.