Asteroid Scientific

Asteroid Scientific, where excellence, performance, and commitment are keywords directing its work

CORPORATE MISSION:

“Find practical solutions to complex problems and convert those ideas into reliable hardware/software quickly and economically.”
To accomplish this, the personnel of Asteroid Scientific have developed a record of :

Timely performance
Quality service
Management with integrity
Reliable products
Good customer liaison
Doing what we say we will do

ASTEROID CORPORATION, founded in 1964, has been engaged primarily in the design, production and installation of instruments and systems used for the acquisition and transmission of data in the form of analog and/or digital signals through the medium of complex communication and instrumentation devices. In the past, emphasis was placed on the corporation's ability to design, fabricate, and install sophisticated electronics devices in a "field environment with a minimum of time, effort, and expense to our customers". Now our emphasis is using this developed and proven knowledge to provide technical service and project management to customers in a consulting and support mode.

Asteroid Corporation provides engineering services with a broad knowledge of new techniques for military and industrial applications. The Corporation concentrates on those projects requiring personnel capable both of finding practical solutions to complex problems and of converting new ideas into reliable hardware/software as quickly as possible. The Corporation's most important asset is the quality, character and maturity of its technical and management staffs who have broad based experience.

The talents of its personnel enable Asteroid Corporation to offer a range of skills and competence difficult to duplicate, even within substantially larger corporations. The Corporation provides a capability for accomplishing total programs from inception through finished hardware with the quick reaction responsiveness necessary to provide reliable service on abbreviated time schedules.

The Corporation was conceived and established to provide complete engineering and installation services of complex communication systems, instrumentation systems, and other electronic facilities.

Asteroid Corporation's past engineering and installation performance record of many years standing, guarantees competent, timely, and satisfactory service.

Asteroid Corporation's capabilities are highlighted by the ability to design and synthesize/integrate electronic modules and systems. The field installation and operational check-out of complex electronic systems is also a part of our proven capability.

The technical nature of the Corporation's business requires not only the capability of installing complex electronic equipment, but applies unique engineering techniques and knowledge to solve chronic problems which are inherent in the electronic systems design and installation business.

A WORK HISTORY (partial):

Fluid Control & Instrumentation Systems

• U.S. Navy – Pearl Harbor, HI
   Under the “Pollution Abatement Large Tank Leak Detection Red Hill” project, engineered & managed a research/development program to create a leak detection system for the Red Hill tanks.

• U.S. Navy – Pearl Harbor, HI
   PIE System for 20 Red Hill tanks – Gauge data: level, 3 temperatures/tank, API Gravity, HLA; Inventory Table data: GVOL, Factor, NVOL; Tank Operations display (4 tanks); Tank Trend Operations display (2 tanks), real-time & History trends of gauge data available; Server/Client LAN operation; data available at Gauger Station, UGPH, Building 1757.

• U.S. Naval Supply Depot – Guam, MI
   Designed, fabricated, and installed an AsterNet High Level Alarm Supervisory System (HLASS) for the Sasa Valley Tank Farm (20 tanks). The system checks for 2 alarms per tank: 1)"safe-to-fill" or Maximum Fill Alarm and 2) "overflow" or Over Fill Alarm.

• U.S. Navy – Pearl Harbor, HI
   SCADA AsterNet System for 20 Red Hill tanks & UTF – RH: level, 3 temperatures/tank, supervisory HLA, remote MOV & pump control; UTF – level, temperature, pressure, remote MOV control; large Graphic Display Panel of entire farm.

• U.S. Navy – Guam, MI
   SCADA AsterNet System for Sasa Valley – level, temperatures, HLA, remote MOV & pump control.

• Padre Dam Municipal Water District, Santee, CA
   SCADA AsterNet System with 56 Remote Terminal Units for monitoring and controlling the water and sewage facilities.

• U.S. Navy – Jacksonville, FL
   SCADA 1185 Automation and Control System – 11 tanks (level/temperature), remote MOV & pump control, and pressure monitoring.

• U.S. Navy – Pearl Harbor, HI
   SCADA 7235A Instrumentation System for 20 Red Hill tanks – level, 6 RTD platinum probe temperatures per tank, and a supervisory HLA.

• Lake Havasu City, AZ
   Designed, fabricated, and installed, complete to Asteroid Corporation specifications, a domestic and irrigation water control system for the entire City System, controlled by FM radio.

• Mobil Oil Company
   Installed and tested a complete Oil Pipeline Flow System from off-shore oil wells to mainland. System designed to check for oil leaks in pipeline.

• U.S. Navy – Pearl Harbor, HI
   Design fabricate, and deliver a Supervisory Motor Operated Valve Control System. The system was an automatic, solid state telemetry system for controlling and monitoring thirty-three (33) MOV's on underground fuel storage tanks. The control and valve status panels were located four (4) miles from the tank farm. Alarm circuitry was also provided.

• Philco Ford – Palo Alto, CA
   Data Acquisition equipment fabricated & installed in 27 remote locations for Santa Clara Water Control District to Central Computer Control for automatic control of pipe line flow and direction of water flow in the system.

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Security/Intrusion & Fire Alarm Systems

• Security Resources, LLC – Honolulu, HI
   Acted as technical consultants providing testing, repair, and documentation on several of their fiber optic security surveillance networks.

• U.S. Navy – Pearl Harbor, HI
   Acted as technical consultants providing testing, repair, and documentation on the FISC fiber optic networks between Red Hill and Pearl Harbor.

• Corps Of Engineers – Edwards AFB, CA
   Designed, fabricated, and installed an Intrusion Detection System for the IFAST Building. A CCTV system with motion detection, 17 cameras, video monitoring, data logging, & UPS backup.

• U.S. Navy – Pearl Harbor, HI
   Designed and fabricated a Red Hill Safety Station System (RHSS) for the Red Hill Fuel Complex. Provided an electronic means of monitoring the entrance and exiting from the tunnel adits. When a Duty Gauger begins his safety inspection rounds he has specific IN/OUT safety station switches he must depress as he proceeds from adits to elevators and along the Upper and Lower Tunnels. Forty-nine safety switches were provided and the system interfaced into the existing AsterNet System.

• U.S. Navy– Pearl City, HI
   Designed, fabricated, and installed a Safety Environmental Alarm Scanner (SEA SCAN™) system for the Pearl City Scada System (PCSS). It monitored 34 points. All alarms are displayed on a computer display console with a Date/Time stamp, an identifying Tag Number, Name, Condition State, and ancillary Note.

• AEC - REECO – Nevada Test Site, Area 27, NV
   Designed, fabricated, and installed a CCTV Security Surveillance System consisting of multiple cameras, video multiplex/control assembly, microwave link (with double passive hop), and a remote control/viewing console.

• AEC - REECO – Mercury, NV
   Designed, fabricated, and installed an Intrusion and Fire Alarm System for Building CP-1, Area 6.

• U.S. Air Force – Indian Springs AFB, Indian Springs, NV
   Designed, fabricated, and installed an Automatic Fire Detection and Alarm System in 14 buildings.

• Barnes Engineering – Nevada Test Site, NV
   Installed an infrared NEMA explosion-proof intrusion system.

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Telephone and Data Systems

• Atomic Energy Commission - Germantown, MD
   Designed, fabricated, and installed the SACNET 100 channel Data Communications Equipment Monitoring and Switching System (DACEMS). The system was used to rapidly determine a failure in the communications portions of SACENT, such as a bad line, modem, crypto, computer port, etc. After determining the fault area, the system would, under operator control, switch up spare equipment in the place of the defective unit. Also, on-line, non-contamination viewing of the data and clock signals was provided.

• AEC – Holmes and Narver, Inc. - Las Vegas, NV
   Designed and fabricated a 30 channel Equipment Control and Monitor System. Primary function was to provide in-circuit switching of cryptographic and computer port standby equipment between remote telephone data sets and a centralized computer facility. Secondary function was to provide a means of monitoring all incoming and out going data signals.

• Central Telephone Company - Las Vegas, NV
   Designed and fabricated a 30 channel Equipment Control and Monitor System. Primary function was to provide in-circuit switching of Data set standby equipment interfacing with GSA provided cryptographic equipment. Secondary function was to provide a means of monitoring all incoming and out going data signals.

• AEC – Holmes and Narver - Las Vegas, NV
  Installed & tested 80 miles of 50 pair underground cable to be used for timing and firing from control point to test point. Cable terminated every 5,000 feet.

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Ground to Ground & Ground to Air Communication Facilities

• U.S. Navy – San Diego, CA
   Fabricated and installed complete operational communication facility for Submarine Communications, Ballast Point Naval Station.

• U.S. Navy – Flagstaff, AZ
   Fabricated and installed complete operational communication facility for communication with Naval Reserve Communications Network, 11th Naval District.

• U.S.Navy – Miami, AZ
   Fabricated and installed complete operational communication facility for communication with Naval Reserve Communications Network, 11th Naval District.

• U.S. Navy – San Bernardino, CA
   Fabricated and installed complete operational communication facility for communication with Naval Reserve Communications Network, 11th Naval District.

• U.S.Navy – San Diego, CA
   Fabricated and installed complete operational communication facility for communication with Naval Reserve Communications Network, 11th Naval District.

• U.S. Navy – Litchfield Naval Station, Litchfield Park, AZ
   Fabricated and installed complete communication facility which included Control Tower for Airfield Teletype Center SACNET, transmitter & receiver complex for communications, Naval Communications Network.

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Special Purpose Systems

• City Of San Diego – San Diego Stadium, San Diego, CA
   Furnished all engineering, supervision, labor, and material to overhaul, operate, and maintain the computer, switching system, and scoreboard for the San Diego Stadium for four years.

• Multiple Gaming Casinos – Las Vegas/Reno, NV
   Designed, fabricated, and installed Multiple Machine Progressive Jackpot Systems.

• Mountain Bell – Littleton, CO
   Designed, fabricated, and installed a computer controlled multimedia system for an auditorium utilizing a rear projection scheme consisting of multiple slide and film projectors and a sound system, all remotely controlled from a podium. The project also included various training classroom subsystems using rear projection slide projectors.

• Navy Fuel Depot– Jacksonville, FL
   Acting as consulting engineers, were directed by the U.S. Navy to investigate and recommend solutions for the abnormally high failure rates that it was experiencing on much of its field related transducers for their Automated Fuel Handling Pollution Control Equipment. Submitted an Engineering Report titled "High Energy Transient Analysis and Suppression Recommendations" that detailed 3 alternatives with estimated costing for solving the problem.

• Pacific Southwest Airlines – San Diego, CA
   Designed and fabricated 25 Automatic Ticket Machines.

• Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone – Seattle, WA
   Designed, fabricated, and installed 4 independent microprocessor based optical projection systems in PNBT's downtown Consolidated Office Building. The systems consisted of 35 mm high intensity, random access slide projectors with slide fade dissolve capabilities and 16 mm motion picture projectors with sound.

• Jai Alai Palace - Tijuana, Mexico
   Designed, manufactured, and installed, ready for use, one 200-foot Automatic Quinela Totalizer Board that totalized dollar volume from eleven Ticket Selling Machines.

• NASA/General Dynamics/Astronautics – San Diego, CA
   Fabricated to Astronautics specifications (NASA control) 3 altitude control computers for the “Little Joe” rocket program.

• City of Las Vegas – Las Vegas, NV
   Designed and fabricated a 9 station electronic vote indicating system with 2 remote displays and a hard copy printer.

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Communication Towers and Antenna Systems

• AEC - REECO – Mercury, NV
   A Microwave Double Passive Hop containing 1 roof-mounted tower, 2 20x24x15 passive reflectors located on mountain tops and 1 free standing tower. The system was turnkey, including the construction of roads. Asteroid Corporation provided all engineering , labor, and material including system operation for warranty period.

• AEC – Holmes and Narver, Inc. - Amchitka Island, Amchitka, AK
   A microwave 4-Hop System was installed, complete and ready for use. System required antennas, waveguides, and 4 towers ranging in height from 75-feet to 160-feet. Also completed a Longhaul Communications Facility, including Transmit/Receive Trailers, sloping "V" antennas, Collins omni-directional antennas, and Heliax transmission lines.

• NASA North American Downey, CA - Andrew Corporation Prime
   Designed, fabricated, and installed a Heliax and elliptical waveguide system for the precise checkout of all Radio Frequencies on 4 Apollo Capsules in final test stands.

• U.S. Navy – San Diego, CA
  Installed Research and Development Antenna, Miramar Naval Air Station, San Diego, California.

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Technical Support

• U.S. Navy – Pearl Harbor, HI
   Developed a facility Fuel Integrity Management program (FIM).

• U.S. Navy – Pearl Harbor, HI
   Developed a detailed Tank Integrity Management program (TIM) for the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage facility.

• U.S. Navy – Pearl Harbor, HI
   Investigated, detailed, repaired, and documented existing FuelNet fiber optic cable network.

• U.S. Navy – Pearl Harbor, HI
   Designed and tested a 10BaseT/F LAN using existing government fiber optic circuits to provide data circuit extension to the Underground Gauger Station at Pearl Harbor from the Red Hill complex.

• U.S. Navy – Pearl Harbor, HI
   Designed and tested an upgrade to existing LAN system serving the Red Hill Underground Gauger Station to provide 100BaseF Ethernet service to improve operation of existing security camera system covering the Red Hill area.

• Security Companies – Nationwide
   Developed detailed documentation for various existing security camera and access control installations installed and maintained by the firm at various federal and local government sites.

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COMPANY HISTORY