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...
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...
