Space Micro Inc Appoints Mike Jacox as Optical Division Manager
Expands Fast growth company management bandwidth

(SAN DIEGO, CA – October 28, 2010) Space Micro Inc announces the addition of Michael Jacox as Division Manager of the Optical Division. Mr. Jacox brings over 25 years of experience leading advanced technology development programs for the Department of Defense (DoD) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and leading aerospace companies. Prior to joining Space Micro Inc. Mr. Jacox was the founder and President of StarVision Technologies Inc. which developed and demonstrated the StarCam satellite stellar gyro and VisNav precision relative navigation sensors. Before creating StarVision, Mr. Jacox served as Deputy Director of the Spacecraft Technology Center at Texas A&M University. Under his leadership, the Center successfully completed a demonstration of the StarNav I star-tracker on the STS-107 space shuttle flight.

During his tenure with the United States Air Force Research Labs, Mr. Jacox served as Program Manager for a $50M solar orbit transfer vehicle (SOTV) demonstration program. He also worked on NASA and DoD funded research programs with Lockheed Martin and other federal contractors.

Mr. Jacox holds a Bachelor of Science from Georgia Tech University, a Masters of Science in Nuclear Engineering from University of Idaho and a Masters in Business Administration from Texas A&M University.

About Space Micro Inc.

Space Micro Inc specializes in payload and communications equipments for satellites. Space Micro is a pioneer and leader in technologies to enable Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) electronic devices to be deployed in space and aerospace. Space Micro developed patented technologies to mitigate radiation effects on state-of-art commercial electronics. Space Micro offers space products from Radiation Hardened (RH) microcircuits using Radiation Hardening by Design (RHBD) technologies to space rated single board computers (RH SBC). Space Micro offers the world’s fastest space radiation hardened line of Proton™ Series RH Computers, including the Proton 200k™ DSP based RH SBC, Proton300k™ SRAM based reconfigurable space computer (RH RCC) and Proton400k™ multi-core PowerPC based RH SBC. Space Micro also offers satellite communications equipment such as Space-Ground Link System (µSGLS™ / RH SGLS / RH SGLS-USB / µSTDN™ / RH STDN transponders), Ka Band transmitter (µKa™ Wide Band Radiation Hardened Transmitter), X/UHF/VHF-Band transponders and power amplifiers (RH PA) and custom boxes. Other Space Micro developments include ProtonX-Box™, TTMR™(Time Triple Modular Redundancy); H-CORE™ circuitry for Single Events Functional Interrupt (SEFI) mitigation, SEMS™ Space Weather Box and Divert Attitude Control System (RH DACS). Space Micro is an employee-owned company based in San Diego, CA

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