SAN DIEGO, CA (MMD Newswire) January 11, 2013 -- Space Micro today announced the expansion of their manufacturing facility in San Diego, CA to meet increased demand for it's high performance space products. The clean room and environmental qualification testing floor space has increased by over 200% and includes upgrades to our receiving/inspection areas for PIND and XRF capabilities."

Space Micro's CEO David J. Strobel, reflecting on the expansion, commented "This expansion is driven by our record backlog of space product orders. Our environmental qualification facility now includes shock, vibration, and thermal vacuum on-site." COO David R. Czajkowski added, " This expansion enables Space Micro to process many simultaneous production contracts in our three contiguous production clean rooms".

About Space Micro Inc.

Space Micro recently celebrated our 10 year anniversary. Founded in 2002 as an engineering-driven small business focused on technology advancement and product implementation, we have earned a strong reputation in the Space industry for innovative, affordable and high performance digital and RF communication products. A brief list of our accomplishments includes:

• Invented & flew new CPU Space Hardened Technologies

• Developed new Radiation Hardened Computer Products

• Developed new C&DH Peripheral Products

• Developed new Space Based Radios (STDN/SGLS Transponders, X/Ku/Ka-Band Mission Data Transmitters)

• Developed new Radiation Hardened Chip Products

• Delivered Multiple Government and Prime Flight Hardware

Space Micro Inc. is a leader in patented radiation hardened by design technologies. These technologies have been implemented in our highly successful ProtonX-Box Avionics Suite, featuring our Proton P200/400k series single board computers which lead the industry in performance and affordability. In addition, Space Micro's high performance software defined radios including STDN and SGLS Transponders as well as X band Transmitters have completed formal acceptance testing with deliveries ongoing. In addition, one of our unique image processing systems (IPC-5000) recently celebrated its' one year anniversary on orbit on the highly successful Air Force ORS-1 program and continues to receive very positive reviews.

Space Micro is an employee-owned company based in San Diego, CA, USA. For more information visit http://www.spacemicro.com or contact Paul Brammer, Vice President of Business Development at (858) 332-0700, extension 127.

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