Science Systems and Applications Inc. has received a potential five-year, $493M contract to perform electrical and electronic engineering support services for NASA‘s Maryland-based Goddard Space Flight Center. The company will study, design, develop, fabricate, integrate, test, verify and operate various space, aerial and ground systems u...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 24, 2018 ” SSL will help Zin Technologies build and test a flight system component that NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed for the future Psyche mission, which aims to study its namesake metallic asteroid in order to understand the Earth’s formation, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 10. The Maxar...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 21, 2018 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has unveiled a prototype habitat structure that it has built for future NASA deep space missions as part of a research and development contract awarded in 2016, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Orlando Sentinel reported Thursday that the 22-foot-long cylindrical habitat...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 20, 2018 ” Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) hosted a demonstration to close an eight-week NASA research program that focused on using artificial intelligence to address challenges in space science and exploration missions, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the NASA Frontier Development Lab Event Hor...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 10, 2018 ” A Northrop Grumman-built (NYSE: NOC) spacecraft is scheduled to launch Sept. 15 from Vandenberg Air Force Base to perform a mission for NASA that aims to collect data on Earth™s changing terrain, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The space agency said Wednesday the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation...
NASA has chosen 13 companies to explore future opportunities for non-governmental entities to conduct U.S. manned spaceflight missions to the International Space Station and other low-Earth orbit destinations. The space agency said Thursday studies will delve into conceptualization of business plans that will discuss the feasibility of using fr...
Six companies have won contracts worth approximately $44 million combined from NASA to develop 10 technology platforms for space exploration. NASA said Thursday it selected the proposals through its Tipping Point solicitation that seeks to address the space technology mission directorate™s three technology focus areas through public-privat...
A joint venture that includes PAE has received a potential eight-year, $608.7 million contract to support the institutional activities at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center and other agency facilities close to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. PAE-SGT Partners will operate, maintain and engineer assigned facilities, equipment an...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 3, 2018 ” Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has completed its clean-room work to prepare NASA‘s Parker Solar Probe for launch after mating the spacecraft to Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) Star 48BV rocket motor and encasing it within its fairing, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursd...
NASA has tapped four companies to provide integration and launch services for a program that aims to leverage commercial suborbital reusable platforms to test new technologies near the boundary of space. The Flight Opportunities Program will involve Aerostar International, Blue Origin Texas, UP Aerospace and World View Enterprises launching res...
