Author: Ramona Adams|| Date Published: July 12, 2016
Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE:JEC) has received a $40.3 million task order from NASA‘s Johnson Space Center to carry out manned flight qualification tests on the agency’s Orion space capsule’s parachute system.
Jacobs said Tuesday it will also produce, deliver and install flight parachutes for the first Orion Exploration Mission which will circumnavigate the moon and return to Earth.
The agency issued the order through its JSC Engineering and Technical Services contract and the company has participated in parachute development and test support work for the Orion program since its 2006 inception.
Jacobs has concluded the final engineering development test of the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) Orion’s parachute system at the U.S. Army™s Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona.
The company has helped carry out out 38 parachute system tests for NASA since 2007 and provided parachutes for Orion’s first engineering flight test in 2014, where the spacecraft reached an orbit of 3, 600 miles above Earth.
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Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE:JEC) has received a $40.3 million task order from NASA‘s Johnson Space Center to carry out manned flight qualification tests on the agency’s Orion space capsule’s parachute system.
