https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK22fHb2pjE NASA™s remotely-piloted Ikhana aircraft performs flight tests in preparation to fly in the National Airspace System without a safety chase aircraft. On June 12, 2018, NASA successfully flew the historic flight. News release: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/na… The flight will help to move the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYVZxdvl2jQ Go behind the scenes of the launch prep for Orbital ATK’s Antares and Cygnus OA-9 mission to the International Space Station. Cygnus is scheduled to launch aboard an Antares rocket for the seventh time from NASA™s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFWS1Dh6H_4 What™s the latest news from Mars? NASA™s InSight lander and MarCO CubeSats are on their way to the Red Planet, a tiny helicopter will hitch a ride with the Mars 2020 rover mission, and Curiosity™s drill is back in business! For more Mars exploration updates, visit https://mars.nasa.gov...
Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) will develop two more weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in addition to the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 spacecraft after NASA exercised options that would bring the total amount of the contract to approximately $460 million. The company said Friday it is currently building the JP...
Ball Aerospace and Technologies has received a $113.2 million contract to develop, build and test the main instrument components of NASA‘s upcoming observatory known as the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope. Ball will deliver design, analysis, fabrication, test and evaluation services supporting the development of WFIRST Wide...
NASA has awarded ASRC Federal˜s InuTeq subsidiary a potential 10-year, $1.2 billion contract to provide high-performance computing support for the space agency’s science and engineering programs. InuTeq will provide technical services and platforms to multiple agency centers that include the Ames Research Center’s advanced supercomp...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOMQOqKRWjU The Mars Helicopter is a technology demonstration that will travel to the Red Planet with the Mars 2020 rover. It will attempt controlled flight in Mars’ thin atmosphere, which may enable more ambitious missions in the future....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 11, 2018 ” Peraton performed compatibility testing and validation of ground stations and spacecraft in support of NASA‘s Deep Space Network designed to track a Mars lander recently launched aboard United Launch Alliance™s Atlas V rocket, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Peraton said Wednesday its ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QETZbYUSNkU Insight, NASA’s next Mars explorer, has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California – a big step forward in the countdown to T-zero on May 5. For launch status: https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/mission… The spacecraft is called InSight – short for Interior Exploration using Seis...
Robert Lightfoot, a 29-year NASA veteran and former acting administrator of the space agency, has been appointed to serve as president of LSINC. “His forward-thinking and consensus-building leadership style brings a new dimension to how we can work with those we serve,” Alicia Ryan, LSINC CEO, said in a statement released Wednesday....
