Six companies have secured contracts worth potentially $40 million combined to help NASA’s Ames Research Center develop rotorcraft vertical lift technologies. Tasks under the five-year hybrid contracts are scheduled to commence on Tuesday and will continue through Dec. 20, 2026, the space agency said Wednesday. Contractors will provide resourc...
APR Consulting has won a potential $500 million contract to perform science, engineering and technical work for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. The transition period for the Temporary Support and Services contract – also known as TSAS – is scheduled to begin Feb. 1, the company said Thursday. Under the 10-year contract, APR...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential 10-year, $3.19 billion contract from NASA to produce and operate solid rocket boosters for the Space Launch System in support of the Artemis program. The contract covers the production of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension boosters for Artemis IX and flight sets for Artemis IV through...
Northrop Grumman, Blue Origin and Nanoracks have received contracts worth $415.6 million combined from NASA to design space-based facilities for low Earth orbit. The Space Act Agreements come as the agency is looking to retire the International Space Station and transition to newer commercially developed facilities that could be accessible to both p...
Reston, Virginia-based Centuria has received a potential $48 million contract from NASA to provide information technology services for the agency’s Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center and Ames Research Center. The space agency said Wednesday it awarded the IT Support Services III contract as a labor-hour order through the General Services A...
NASA and a Battelle business that manages the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory are calling for initial designs of a fission surface power system that can support future missions on the moon. A newly released solicitation from Battelle Energy Alliance and NASA details a need for a power source that can withstand lunar environments...
Intuitive Machines has received a $77.5 million task order to help NASA send four payloads to the moon’s surface sometime in 2024 on an Artemis mission to study the lunar surface feature known as Reiner Gamma. NASA said Thursday that Intuitive Machines will be responsible for integrating, transporting and operating the hardware on a Nova-C...
The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington will continue to provide science operational support for the Hubble Space Telescope through June 30, 2026 under a potential $215 million contract extension with NASA. NASA said Tuesday the latest award allows AURA to continue supporting the operations of the Space Telescope Scie...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has teamed up with four other companies to design and propose a lunar terrain vehicle for NASA’s Artemis moon exploration program. Northrop said Tuesday it will lead the industry team composed of AVL, Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Michelin to offer the space agency an LTV platform that will include avionics...
BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) has received a five-year blanket purchase agreement to provide high revisit satellite imaging data in support of NASA’s Earth observation research efforts. “Helping NASA-backed researchers broaden their understanding around critical changes in the Earth’s ecosystems, oceanography, geographic and polar sciences is vitally ...
