NASA has started its search for additional U.S. companies that are willing to transport private astronauts to the International Space Station on two separate short-duration missions slated to occur in the 2022-2023 timeframe. These two new flight opportunities for the private sector came one month after NASA and Axiom Space signed an agreement to co...
A consortium of Oak Ridge, Tennessee-based universities has secured a potential $129.7 million contract to continue to help NASA manage a fellowship program that recruits scientists and engineers who have earned a PhD to perform research work for the space agency. Oak Ridge Associated Universities will administer and coordinate agency-wide research ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will design, develop and operate the spacecraft for two missions NASA selected to explore Venus as part of the agency’s Discovery Program. The space agency expects the two missions – Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble Gases, Chemistry and Imaging Plus or DAVINCI+ and Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSA...
Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has secured a potential $90 million contract to build a laser-based technology to measure the temperature, pressure, carbon dioxide and oxygen within the Orion spacecraft during NASA’s planned human missions to the moon. Huntsville, Alabama-based Dynetics will produce the Laser Air Mo...
A joint venture between Banner Quality Management Inc. and Peerless Technologies will continue to support information technology operations at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio under a five-year, $233.2 million contract. The BQMI-Peerless JV will perform IT work for the Cleveland-based agency center and the Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility i...
Woman-owned company Manufacturing Technical Solutions has secured a potential five-year, $463 million contract to perform consolidated program support services for two NASA space centers in Alabama and Texas. Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, MTS will receive task orders to provide knowledge and expertise in the program, pl...
NASA has asked industry to submit feedback on a draft performance work statement for the Consolidated Operations, Management, Engineering and Test contract that will replace the Kennedy Space Center’s Test and Operations Support Contract. The proposed COMET contract will include management services for KSC’s launch infrastructure and ground proc...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a five-year, $275 million contract to help NASA update the hardware and software of an Earth data management system. The company will engineer on-premise and cloud-based applications for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System as part of the EOSDIS Evolution and Development-3 contract, the...
NASA is seeking additional developers of satellite bus core systems and support services to participate in the second on-ramp solicitation process under the multiple-award $6 billion Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV program. The agency indicated its intent to expand the Rapid IV Catalog in a request for proposals notice posted Thursday on SAM .gov. B...
SpaceX has won a potential $2.89 billion contract from NASA to continue development work on its human landing system that would transport two astronauts to the surface of the moon as part of the Artemis program. NASA said Saturday it awarded the firm-fixed-price contract under the Appendix H broad agency announcement of the Next Space...
