T+302: A Tour of Marotta Controls

We take a tour of Marotta Controls in Montville, New Jersey, to see how they work, how they develop, produce, and test products at rate, and we learn about the most feared topic in space—valves!
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Topics
• Controls Engineering | Control System Company | Marotta (marotta.com)
• Space Controls | Spacecraft Control Systems | Marotta (marotta.com/markets/space)
• Marotta’s post with photos of my tour (linkedin.com/posts/marotta-controls_marotta-co…)
• Brian’s photo of a thruster firing (linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:732381…)
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