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Machinery, Power and IT Group Man’s Future In Space Gets A Jolt Of Power Aerospace Business Partnership Provides For The International Space Station’s Sustenance Needs And Power Expectations S umitomo Corporation of America’s Aerospace and Defense Unit, a part of the Machinery, Power and IT Business Group, recently celebrated a milestone during the recent Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). A longstanding SCOA joint venture provided not only the spacesuits for the astronauts, as it has for the past 15 years, but the solar panels that were installed to finish the station’s solar capability, incorporating a new business enterprise for SCOA. Completion of this landmark endeavor paves the way for better power accessibility in space, on the moon, and someday on the planet Mars. Established in 1994, Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International (HSSSI) is a joint venture and strategic alliance between Sumitomo Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation of America, and United Technologies, the owner of aircraft and aerospace manufacturer Hamilton Sundstrand. HSSSI supplies the air and water systems that keep astronauts living and breathing in the Space Shuttle,. One of the centerpieces of HSSSI’s contribution to the ISS is the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), or spacesuit, for the manned space program.The EMU provides enough expendables for a seven-hour space walk, and has allowed astronauts to build the ISS’s massive structure while in the vacuum of space. With HS Rocketdyne, a company specializing in emerging solar power technology, recently becoming a part of HSSSI, the joint venture can now work toward supplying a necessary factor in future endeavors in space: electric power. During the 14-day Space Shuttle mission in March of 2009, astronauts installed the final set of solar array wings and truss elements needed to complete the ISS's electricity generating system. The entire set of arrays, part of a larger electrical distribution system designed and built by HS Rocketdyne, can generate the electricity equal to the amount necessary to power 30 average-sized homes. “HSSSI had the capabilities to provide water and air in a space environment,” said Hiroshi Ogawa, Director of Aerospace and Defense Unit,“and this new business adds another human-required item, which is power.” Originally, HSSSI was envisioned as a strategic relationship, a way for Sumitomo to be on the cutting edge of aerospace technology while allowing Hamilton Sundstrand an entry into 12 visions Spring 2009

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Contents
SCOA's Railroad Business Is A Junction With Function
Producing Better Medicines Becomes Healthy Business Opportunity in Life Science Unit
Pork Is The Main Ingredient In Recipe for Success and Expansion
Man's Future In Space Gets A Jolt Of Power
New Tubular Acquisitions Keeps The Pipeline For Growth Open
Healthy Smiles For Dogs & Cats Are Just a Crunch Away
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Visions - Spring 2009 - SCOA's Railroad Business Is A Junction With Function
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Visions - Spring 2009 - Producing Better Medicines Becomes Healthy Business Opportunity in Life Science Unit
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Visions - Spring 2009 - Pork Is The Main Ingredient In Recipe for Success and Expansion
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Visions - Spring 2009 - Man's Future In Space Gets A Jolt Of Power
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Visions - Spring 2009 - New Tubular Acquisitions Keeps The Pipeline For Growth Open
Visions - Spring 2009 - Healthy Smiles For Dogs & Cats Are Just a Crunch Away
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