Qualifications & Heritage

Taber Industries takes pride in our achievement of providing quality instrumentation that meets customer application requirements and expectations.  The Taber Industries Quality Management System is guided by the following controls:

	Quality Workmanship	AS9100D, MIL-Q-9858A NASA STD 8739.1A, NASA STD 8739.2, NASA STD 8739.3
	Calibration Welding	MIL-STD-45662A, ANSI/NCSL Z540-1, NIST NASA STD 5006, AWS D17.1.M

External Approvals:

	McDonnell Douglas	MIL-Q-9858A
	Lockheed Martin	MIL-I-452081 & MIL-STD-45662A
	Textron Marine	MIL-I-452081 & MIL-STD-45662A
	NASA	NASA STD 8739.3

 

For over 60 years, Taber Industries has been supplying instrumentation for "on board" military, scientific, and commercial applications. The following heritage list shows the industries, companies, and some of the exciting projects which Taber has been involved with during this time.

 

AEROSPACE INDUSTRY

	Aerojet	Space Shuttle - Pulsed Rocket Engine & Orbital Maneuvering System, K-1 RLV, NEXT Thruster
	Rockwell International	Space Shuttle - Hydraulic System Pressure
	NASA - KSC	Space Shuttle - Ground Testing & Solid Rocket Recovery System, Constellation - Ground Support & Test Transducers
	NASA - Hamilton Sundstrand	Space Suit - Supplemental Oxygen Pack
	Naval Research Lab	Space Shuttle - Launch Dispenser
	DTI Associates	Oriole Sounding Rocket
	Fiat-Avio ( Italy)	VEGA Launch Vehicle, cryogenic rocket engine testing
	Lockheed Martin	Minuteman rocket heat shield testing
	Mitsubishi Heavy Ind. ( Japan)	H-1, H-II, Launch Vehicle
	ATK/GASL, Inc.	X43A - Hyper-X Scramjet

 

SATELLITE INDUSTRY

	Astrium (Daimler-Chrysler)	Artemis, Ion Propulsion System, SATELCOMM, KOMPSAT II, ATV (ESA) Program
	Boeing Satellite Systems	Multiple (seven plus) GEO Satellites currently in orbit
	Busek	FalconSAT 6, FalconSAT 5
	Creare	Hubble Space Telescope Planck Cooler
	Fiat Avio (Italy)	Artemis, Tethered Sat, SICRAL, Italsat
	IHI (Japan)	ALOS (Advanced Land Observation Satellite), ETS-8 Program, SELENE (KAGUYA)
	Lockheed Martin (GE Astro)	Telstar, Intelsat, EOS, DSCS-IABSA, 7000 Series Comsats, GE-1, GE-2, Echostar, Asiasat, Landsat 7, A2100 Series Comsats, SIRTF Program, Koreasat
	Lockheed Martin (Stennis)	Falcon - HTV-2
	Marquardt/Ford Aerospatiale	Insat, Intelsat, Arabsat
	MELCO	QZS, Himawari 8, Turksat-4A
	MHI/Melco (Japan)	HTV, MTSAT, Superbird-7, HTV-1-5
	Moog, Inc.	JPL N-STAR c, Ion Propulsion System
	NASA - Aerojet	Radiation Belt Storm - Van Allen Probes
	NASA - GSFC	TOMS-EP (Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer), LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Order), SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory), GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement)
	NASA - JPL	Mars Exploration Rover-Cruise Stage DAWN, Deep Space 1, Clementine Lunar Orbiter
	NASA - JPL/Pacific Design Technologies	MSL (Mars Science Lab)
	Orbital ATK	IBEX, Radarsat, Orbcomm, Orbview & SBD, N-STAR c, PanAmSat XII, XIV, XV, TELKOM II, ROCSAT-3, OPTUS-D1, D2, GEOStar - Hylas, OCO, SES-1, Koreasat-6, Intelsat-New Dawn, SES-3, SES-2, Intelsat-18, Azerspace/Africasat-1A, Cygnus-ORB-1
	Space Industries	Wake Shield Facility
	Space Systems/Loral	Multiple (twelve plus) SSL GEO Satellites currently in orbit
	Teledyne Brown/Boeing	International Space Station (ISS) Vacuum System

 

AVIATION INDUSTRY

	Boeing	C130 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP), Wave Rider (X-51)
	Hill AFB	Automated Jet Engine Test System
	Rockwell International	B-1 Flight Tests
	Wright Patterson AFB	Jet Engine Ground Testing
	Lockheed Martin	Anti-skid Brake Testing for 757/767 Aircraft
	Pratt & Whitney	Experimental Jet Engine Oil Pressure Sensor
	Southwest Research	F1-11 Flight Testing
	Northrop Grumman	Joint Stars, F-14 Engine Testing, E-2C Hawkeye upgrade
	Garrett/Fairchild	F109 GE Engine Trim Sets Flight Test
	Israel Aircraft	Rafael Aircraft Flight Test
	Allied Signal (Garrett)	APU pressure sensors for: GTCP331-200/250/350; GTCP36/150RR/RJ/F2N; GTCP36-120/280/300A/G/F

 

MARINE & NAVAL INDUSTRY

	General Dynamics	Tomahawk Cruise Missile
	Lockheed Martin	Deep Sea Recovery Vehicle (DSRV)
	Spears Associates/US Navy	Submersible Electronic System (Towed Array)
	Westinghouse Marine	Poseidon & Trident Missile Launch Tubes
	Woods Hole	Deep Submergence Research Vehicle (HOV Alvin)
	US Navy ships	Sea Cliff, Turtle, USS Seawolf, USS Dolphin, etc.
	Textron Marine	Air Cushioned Landing Craft (LCAC)
	Northrop Grumman	Variable Ballast Trim System for the ASDS
	Raytheon	Variable Depth Mine Hunting Sonar System-AN/SQQ-32