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...
NASA has issued a request for proposals for the second iteration of the Systems Engineering Advanced Services contract with a maximum ordering value of $298 million. SEAS II will involve work to engineer systems for various NASA facilities such as the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, the agency sai...
NASA has awarded SpaceX a potential $331.8 million contract to launch a solar electric propulsion spacecraft and a crew module using the Falcon Heavy rocket for the agency's mission to land astronauts on the moon in 2024. SpaceX will aim to deploy the lunar Gateway's Power and Propulsion Element along with the Habitation and Logistics Outp...
NASA has issued a request for proposals for the second iteration of the Systems Engineering Advanced Services contract with a maximum ordering value of $298 million. SEAS II will involve engineering mission and instrument systems for various NASA facilities such as the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and the Wallops Flight Facility in Virgin...
NASA has awarded SpaceX a potential $331.8 million contract to launch a solar electric propulsion spacecraft and a crew module using the Falcon Heavy rocket for the agency's mission to land astronauts on the moon in 2024. SpaceX will aim to deploy the lunar Gateway's Power and Propulsion Element along with the Habitation and Logistics...
NASA has named Diane Dailey, Chloe Mehring, Fiona Turett and Brandon Lloyd as flight directors to help the agency manage operations of the International Space Station. "These four join a storied group of individuals. We’re excited to have them and know they are up for the task,” said Steve Koerner, director of flight operations at NASA....
NASA is looking to procure financial support services through an agency-wide, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract reserved for small businesses. A special notice posted Friday on SAM says all agency facilities could use the planned eight-year, NFSS procurement vehicle that will include a phase-in period of 30 days and three two-year opt...
SpaceX has secured a contract to help NASA deploy spacecraft as early as June 2024 for an astrophysics mission that aims to discover more about the universe through observations in near-infrared light. NASA said Friday it expects to spend $98.8 million on launch services for the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionizati...
Firefly Aerospace has received a potential $93.3 million task order from NASA under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative to bring a suite of 10 technology demonstrations and science investigations to the lunar surface in 2023....
