Space Micro Inc. Receives San Diego Business Journal's “Fast 100" Fast Growth Award for sixth (6th) consecutive year.

SAN DIEGO, CA - September 30, 2011 - Space Micro Inc. was honored last night as one of the San Diego Business Journal's "100 Fastest Growing Private Companies" for calendar year 2010. The list is comprised of the top 100 companies with the highest growth of revenues from 2008 to 2010 in San Diego County. The San Diego Business Journal found a few key elements in common amongst the 100 winners including: flexibility, attention to market demands, and customer satisfaction.
Space Micro's CEO, David J. Strobel, expressing his appreciation for the award, commented; "On behalf of our Space Micro team we are honored to have received this award for the fourth consecutive year. We always make it a priority to give our customers the best value proposition, and to be awarded for doing so is especially gratifying. We are now positioned for continued rapid growth in both revenue and hiring in 2012-2013."
Since its inception, Space Micro has experienced continuous rapid growth with such clients as Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Orbital Sciences, Goodrich Aerospace, Boeing Space, L3 Communications, ATK, SAIC, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Missile Defense Agency, and the United States Air Force. Space Micro has grown from a small startup company in 2002, to a company currently employing nearly 50 professionals. They have significantly increased their space product line, in both the space avionics and space communications sectors. Other awards Space Micro has received include: Inc. 5000 fast growth, Tech America Emerging growth nominee, finalist for CONNECT's "Most Innovative Product”, and San Diego Business Journal's "Best Places to Work Award."
About Space Micro                                                                                         

Space Micro Inc specializes in payload and communications equipment for satellites.  Space Micro is the leader in technologies that enable Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) electronic devices to be deployed in space. Radiation in space is damaging to electronics. Space Micro has patents for mitigating radiation effects on state-of-art commercial electronics. Space Micro offers space-qualified radiation hardened microelectronics, from radiation hardened by design (RHBD) technologies to space rated single board computers (RH SBC) and radios. Space Micro offers the world’s fastest space radiation hardened line of Proton™ Series RH computers to include the Proton200k™ DSP-based, Proton300k™ FPGA and Proton400k‑L™ Multi-Core PowerPC-based processors. In addition to satellite computers, Space Micro offers satellite communications equipments to include compact µSDR™ radiation hardened software defined radio, µSGLS™ Space-Ground Link System, µSTDN ™, µX-Band ™ and µKa-Band ™ transmitters, transponders and Solid State Power Amplifiers (RH SSPA).  Other Space Micro products include ProtonX-Box™ Avionics Suite, IPC5000™ Image Processing System, SEMS™ Space Weather Sensor Suite and Divert Attitude Control System (RH DACS).  Other Space Micro developed technologies include TTMR™ & Patented (Time Triple Modular Redundancy) and H-CORE™ & Patented “Watch Dog” circuitry for Single Events Functional Interrupt (SEFI) space radiation mitigation. Technologies currently under development include DDR2 SDRAM and Monolithic RH Flash memories for advanced space processors. Space Micro is an employee-owned company based in San Diego, Calif., USA. For more information, visit http://www.spacemicro.com

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