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A business unit of the Schafer Corporation based in Albuquerque, New Mexico has teamed with MoonDust Technologies of Tucson, Arizona to pursue a unique line of products resulting from the use of Schafer’s proprietary microgravity production technology.
The agreement grants MoonDust Technologies (MDT) the exclusive right to produce and sell these products worldwide and provides Schafer with royalties on the sales.
As part of the agreement, Schafer will provide MDT with technical and engineering support focused on the design and development of space hardware.
In a press statement, Schafer Corporation President, Tony Frederickson, noted. “For over 40 years, visions of space-based commercial ventures have been driven by the advantages of microgravity fabrication for a range of high-value products,” Frederickson said. “We’re pleased that Schafer technology will play a part as this dream at last nears reality.”
Schafer Corporation is a scientific and engineering company with a legacy rooted in space, optical, and directed energy programs.
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According to Rick Gibson, CEO of MoonDust Technologies: “The impact will be stunning. We’re looking at a broad range of transformational products involving medical, information, and DOD applications,” he predicted.
MoonDust Technologies, LLC was created as an affiliate of the Medusa Group of companies in Tucson.
Dan Hodges, CEO and President of Medusa said: “Notably, Schafer’s micro-gravity technology allows us to solve some extremely difficult technical issues and create solutions and products that are desperately needed, but simply couldn’t be solved with Earth-bound processes before,” Hodges explained. “This approach is the only way to go.”
MDT expects to have sample products available for industry review next summer, 2012.
Last month, Schafer announced that it had teamed with UP Aerospace of Denver, Colorado to provide comprehensive launch and payload integration services for up to eight NASA suborbital launches during 2012 and 2013.
By Leonard David