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- 1. State-of-the-Art Facilities The foundation of Astrotech’s leadership position in the industry is a result of its significant investment in specialized, ideally-located facilities. The Company’s full-service; state-of-the-art facilities are configured to serve a variety of payloads and launch-vehicle subassemblies. The facilities offer customers an alternative to using government-owned processing locations, which is particularly important to international customers. Featuring clean-room and quality-control capabilities, hazardous and nonhazardous material processing, flight-hardware and ground- support equipment storage, and office accommodations for customers, Astrotech’s facilities become a seamless extension of the spacecraft manufacturer’s operations near the launch pad. Astrotech’s operating model allows for maximum flexibility in processing parallel missions and to accommodate schedule changes. Titusville, Florida – Located just outside the gates of Kennedy Space Center, Astrotech’s 62-acre property consists of nine buildings totaling 140,000 square feet. A central feature is its 46,500-square-foot Spacecraft Payload Processing Facility, which can support 4-meter- and 5-meter-class spacecraft and the associated payload fairings manifested for launch on the Delta IV and the Atlas V launch-vehicle systems operated by United Launch Alliance. Spacecraft Payload Processing Facility (SPPF), Florida – Astrotech’s SPPF is a 52,000-square-foot building just outside CCAFS that includes a 10,000-square- foot, class 100K cleanroom and multiple supporting adjacent rooms including a portable Laminar Flow Enclosure that can provide 10K cleanroom capability and a 3,600-square-foot air lock. Adjacent processing rooms include a dedicated shipping and receiving area, secure bonded storage n NASDAQ SYMBOL ASTC n CEO/CHAIRMAN Thomas B. Pickens, III n HEADQUARTERS Austin, Texas n MAIN WEBSITE astrotechcorp.com S P AC E O P E R A T I O N S n 62 Acres of Company-owned Property in Titusville n 140,000 sq ft of Processing Facility Space n Adjacent to KSC/CCAFS (3miles to gate) n Full-Service Capability
- 2. rooms, a foam-cutting room, a dedicated bench-review and flight-hardware packaging room, a cable-preparation room, and several laboratory-grade Customer Work Areas that are equipped with fume hoods and laminar flow benches. The facility also offers ample engineering office space, a secure-document and data-control room, and several conference rooms. The grounds feature a security-controlled perimeter fence and badge-controlled access. Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), California – Astrotech’s 60-acre VAFB site consists of five buildings and 38,500 square feet of space supporting expendable Atlas, Delta, Pegasus, and Taurus launches from the Western Range. Astrotech is nearing completion of a new spacecraft processing bay that will provide the capability to process five-meter class payloads. This five- meter high bay is capable of hazardous and non-hazardous processing and will provide an additional 8,000 square feet of clean room processing space and a 60-ton capacity overhead crane with a 100 foot hook height. This facility also includes a new $1.2 million administration building that enables Astrotech to expand its capacity on the Western Range. Sea Launch Home Port Facilities, California – Astrotech provides payload-processing and facility-support services for the Sea Launch program at Sea Launch’s home port facilities in Long Beach, California. Sea Launch is an international consortium consisting of companies from the U.S., Russia, Norway, and Ukraine that provides launch services from a near-equatorial mobile sea platform using specialized Zenit-3SL rockets. For More Information: Astrotech Space Operations 1515 Chaffee Drive Titusville, FL 32780 Phone: (321) 268-3830 Fax: (321) 268-3834