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....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgOap2DGh6A NASA Deputy Associate Administrator recognizes the 2018 National Small Business Week; a time to celebrate the critical contributions of America™s entrepreneurs and small business owners. NASA honors its 2017 Agency Small Business Advocate Award winners and acknowledges the contributions made by NASA c...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 26, 2018 ” Engility (NYSE: EGL) will assist Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies in providing support services to NASA‘s Houston-based Johnson Space Center under the potential eight-year, $1.12 billion Mission Systems Operations Contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Engility said Tuesday the cost-plus-aw...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 26, 2018 ” A Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) spacecraft is scheduled for launch in May to support a NASA mission that aims to study Mars’ seismic activity and interior components, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Tuesday the InSight lander will lift off on Ma...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwaD0UKsX3g Jim Bridenstine officially took office as the 13th administrator of NASA on Monday, April 23rd, after he was given the oath of office by Vice President Mike Pence at the agency™s headquarters in Washington. This video is available for download from NASA’s Image and Video Library: https://go.nasa...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nunZ4DAs7ok NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 18, 2018. — NASA’s TESS Satellite Will Supercharge Search for Nearby, Earth-Like Worlds https://www.space.com/40307-nasa-tess-satel...
Jon Arena, former senior counsel of Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) global services segment, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) as vice president and chief counsel of its Newport News Shipbuilding division. He succeeds Jim Gildea and will advise the division’s senior management on legal matters in his new positi...
