NASA has awarded $146 million in contracts to five companies to develop lunar lander design concepts, perform risk reduction activities and offer feedback to inform requirements for a future solicitation on industry capabilities that could help facilitate regular manned missions to the moon under the space agency’s Artemis program. Blue Origin, Le...
NASA has awarded spots on a potential five-year, $300 million contract to nine companies to perform architectural and engineering work at the space agency’s facilities and infrastructure within the southeastern U.S. Contractors will support agency projects under the Architect-Engineer Services for the Design and Other Professional Services Nec...
SpaceX has secured a potential $152.5 million contract from NASA to launch the fourth and final spacecraft for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series, the space agency’s collaborative acquisition program with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NASA said Saturday it expects the company’s Falcon He...
Five companies have been awarded contracts to help NASA identify strategies to reduce the risk and cost of a potential future demonstration of subsonic transport aircraft technologies. The agency chose Boeing (NYSE: BA), Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTN), General Electric (NYSE: GE), Blended Wing Aircraft and ROHR to support the Future Subsonic Demo...
NASA has asked industry for proposals to design, build and test multiple Mars ascent vehicles and related electrical and mechanical ground support equipment. The space agency will launch a full and open competition for the Mars Ascent Vehicle Integrated System program with plans to award a potential six-year, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract on Fe...
NASA will hold a full and open competition for the fourth iteration of a contract that provides for services and supplies in support of the space agency’s Sounding Rockets Program, a flight initiative for conducting rapid scientific experiments in space. The proposed NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract IV will cover program management and...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured a potential five-year, $270 million contract to provide program and project management services to NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. The company will help Ames personnel develop instruments, modernize technology and implement missions for biosciences flight projects, the space agency said Tuesday. Resto...
The Government Accountability Office has dismissed protests against NASA’s award of a potential $2.89 billion contract to SpaceX to further develop a human landing system that would transport two astronauts to the surface of the moon as part of the Artemis program. NASA said Saturday GAO’s decision will enable the space agency and SpaceX to...
Marshall Smith, former deputy associate administrator for systems engineering and integration within a NASA directorate, has joined Voyager Space Holdings subsidiary Nanoracks to serve as senior vice president of commercial space stations. Voyager said Monday Smith will oversee Nanoracks’ commercial space services from a new Huntsville, Alabam...
NASA intends to exercise a two-year option on its $500 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that supports research and engineering requirements of the International Space Station. The agency said Saturday it will extend the performance period for the Research, Engineering, Mission Integration Services Contract in a strategy to es...
