United Launch Alliance selected Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix to provide primary avionics components for guidance and navigation of the Atlas V rocket in a follow-on contract worth as much as $90 million over the life of the long-term contract. Honeywell will provide the Fault Tolerant Inertial Navigation Unit (FTINU) and the Redundant Rate Gyro Unit (RRGU). Honeywell will deliver 25 FTINUs and 38 RRGUs beginning later this year and continuing through 2016. Honeywell's FTINU and RRGU work together to perform inertial measurement functions and to provide computer processing capability for the inertial and flight software. The most recent Atlas V launch included the U.S. military's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. For more information about launches, visit www.ulalaunch.com.
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