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...
NASA’s Launch Services Program has initiated an on-ramp process that resulted in the addition of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket to the NASA Launch Services II indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract. “ULA is honored that NASA LSP has added our Vulcan Centaur rocket to the catalogue of launch vehicles available to suppo...
Mike Gold, former associate administrator for space policy and partnerships at NASA, has joined Redwire as executive vice president of civil space business development and external affairs. Redwire said Tuesday that Gold will build on his experience handling space innovation, regulatory issues and relationships between public and private sector...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 26, 2021 — Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has helped NASA build a cloud-based system to process data from the agency’s Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich climate monitoring satellite as part of the Earth Science Data and Information Systems project, ExecutiveBiz reported March 17. The company said March 16 its intelligen...
The White House intends to nominate Bill Nelson, a former senator from Florida, to serve as NASA administrator, SpaceNews reported Thursday. Sources said the Biden administration is expected to announce Nelson’s nomination as early as Friday, March 19. Nelson, a Democrat who served three terms in the Senate, was ranking member of the Senate Commer...
ASRC Federal‘s Agile Decision Sciences subsidiary will help NASA manage spectrum utilization and analyze radio frequency interference as part of a potential five-year, $74.8 million contract awarded in February. The company said Monday its ADS group will also provide support services to NASA’s space communication and navigation division ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential $84.5 million contract to provide propulsion technologies and technical assistance at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to support Mars exploration and sample return missions. The Mars Ascent Propulsion System award, which has a $60.2 million base value to cover a 14-m...
A NASA rover that launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket in July 2020 has reached Mars. NASA said Friday the 2,263-pound Perseverance rover will go through weeks of testing before it kicks off its scientific investigation of the planet’s Jezero Crater for two years. Astrobiol...
Houston-based aerospace services provider Barrios Technology has secured a potential eight-year, $160 million contract to help NASA coordinate projects at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. NASA said Wednesday the company could extend support services to other agency facilities under the Consolidated Program Support Services Project Coordi...
