Honeywell to Provide Navigation Control for Argentina's 1st Geostationary Satellite

• Honeywell is Only U.S. Company Selected in the Competition

(Phoenix, August 9, 2010) -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today that it will provide the stability equipment for Argentina's first geostationary telecom satellite in a contract worth $2.4 million.

Honeywell's Reaction Wheel Assemblies (RWA) and Miniature Inertial Measurement Units (MIMU) are integral parts of the ARSAT-1 satellite's Attitude Control System.

"Honeywell is the only U.S. company selected in the competition for Argentina's first GEO satellite program" said Dave Douglass, Honeywell vice president of Space, Missiles and Munitions. "Honeywell's RWAs provide fine attitude control required by satellite communication networks."

The ARSAT-1 will be developed by the Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales S.A., Argentina's first geostationary satellite, scheduled to launch in 2012. The satellite will provide data, telephone and television transmission services for Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia.

Honeywell's RWA and momentum wheel assemblies (MWA) are reliable, lightweight solutions to a variety of momentum control needs, providing stability and attitude-control for small to very large, heavy spacecraft. RWAs and MWAs from Honeywell have accumulated more than 65 million hours of 100 percent successful on-orbit operation - the equivalent to more than 7,400 years of accumulated time on orbit - and have never caused a mission to end prematurely.

Source : Honeywell International, Inc. (NYSE: HON)