Maxar Technologies™ SSL subsidiary has secured a position on a potential five-year, $750M contract from NASA to develop spacecraft technologies for the Defense Department. SSL is among three contractors selected to support the the Small Spacecraft Prototyping Engineering Development and Integration“Space Solutions program managed...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 4, 2018 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has collaborated with NASA to check the operability of electrical interfaces linking two James Webb Space Telescope components as part of the program’s test and integration phase, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday Webb’s Optical ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 1, 2018 ” Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) has collaborated with NASA to complete a series of tests on a parachute system that will be used for the Orion spacecraft’s re-entry into Earth upon the conclusion of its mission, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the team conducted the la...
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has received a potential 12-year, $563.5M contract extension to help NASA manage a space observatory built to detect X-ray emissions from outer space. SAO will continue to support Chandra X-ray Observatory system engineering, ground system development and maintenance; scientific research; outr...
Northrop Grumman™s (NYSE: NOC) innovation systems sector, Sierra Nevada and Maxar Technologies™ (NYSE: MAXR) SSL have each won a potential five-year, $750M contract to develop small and medium satellites, payloads, spacecraft subsystems, buses, software and ground platforms for NASA. NASA announced the awardees under the Small Spacecr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 17, 2018 ” KBRwyle will deliver and commission satellite laser ranging stations as part of a NASA project on space geodetic techniques under a potential $48M contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. NASA said Friday the KBR (NYSE: KBR) global government services business will build and deploy as many as six ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 5, 2018 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and NASA have scheduled an early October launch for a Pegasus XL rocket that would carry a spacecraft designed to study the Earth’s ionosphere, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The team has replaced a faulty sensor and has now moved the previous June liftoff of the Ion...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 4, 2018 ” General Atomics will host a NASA space-based instrument on a commercial low-Earth-orbit satellite in support of a mission to study aerosols in the atmosphere to measure the radiance and polarization of sunlight, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The space agency said Friday the company will prov...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 4, 2018 ” Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has moved forward to the final assembly and design phase of a NASA program aimed to develop spacecraft that will work to redirect the path of an asteroid in support of planetary defense, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The lab said Thursday it rec...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 31, 2018 ” General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business, PAE‘s joint venture with American Operations Corp. and Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary will work on a two-year NASA project focused on commercial unmanned aircraft systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. NASA said Wednesday&n...
