Laser System Engineering Support Contract for ICESat-II Mission Awarded to the Fibertek/Sigma Space Team

LANHAM, Md.--(Business Wire)--
Sigma Space Corp. announced today the award of the Laser System Engineering
Support contract from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to the Fibertek/Sigma
Space team.

The Team is being contracted for the provision of services required to design,
test, fabricate, deliver, operate, and evaluate Space Laser Systems for the
ICESat-II Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) Instrument for the
ICESat-II mission.

In its selection statement NASA prized the technical capabilities and exemplary
past performance of the Team as well as the comprehensive capabilities in all
areas of the statement of work.

"This award enables our company to contribute key technologies and innovations
for some of the most complex and advanced areas of the ATLAS instrument,
applying core competencies and capabilities of our organization in design and
fabrication of aerospace lidars," said Dr. Marcos Sirota, CEO of Sigma Space.
"Our partnership with Fibertek enables the Team to deliver extraordinary
services and products to NASA for this mission."

ICESat-II will use precision laser-ranging techniques to measure the topography
of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and the thickness characteristics of
Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. According to the National Research Council's
Decadal Survey on Earth Science and Applications from Space, the mission will
fill an urgent need in understanding the Earth's rapidly changing ice cover.

Sigma Space Corp., based in Lanham, MD, is one of the fastest growing providers
of optoelectronic aerospace instrumentation for NASA, DOD, and commercial
customers. Fibertek, Inc., based in Reston, VA, engages in the design,
development, and manufacture of lasers and electro-optical sensor systems
primarily for the military and aerospace markets.

Sigma Space Corp.
Jeff Dawson, 301-552-6300

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