
ATLANTA-- Founded by the late physicist and entrepreneur Alfred Mann in 1956--a year before the Soviet Sputnik launch, Spectrolab has focused its business on solar space cell research and production of such cells for powering NASA and other satellites and space systems. That research migrated into the realm of high power search lights for rotor craft, and 4,000 such Spectrolab lights are now in the field--70 percent domestically and 30 percent internationally, Anthony Mueller, the president of Spectrolab, said in…