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TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 30, 2017 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has rolled out a sunshield subsystem for NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope that utilizes five NeXolve-manufactured layers made of Kapton that work to protect the observatory’s optics, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday it ha...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey1X-DKnXI4 NASA and Boeing recently signed a Space Act Agreement and their work could lead to better flight training and aviation safety around the world....
NASA has awarded 24 contracts under a potential eight-year, $3 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity procurement vehicle for general construction services. The space agency said Wednesday it awarded four spots on the unrestricted portion of the Multiple Award Construction Contract Two and another 20 positions for MACC-...
United Launch Alliance has secured a potential $153.8 million contract from NASA to provide launch support services for the Landsat 9 satellite. NASA said Friday it expects Landsat 9 to take off aboard the Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) joint venture™s Atlas V 401 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California...
SpaceX has secured a $97 million contract from NASA to launch a satellite that will work to continue a long-term effort to measure the height of the global sea surface. NASA said Friday it expects the Sentinel-6A spacecraft to lift off by November 2020 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 roc...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2017 ” Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) has scheduled a Nov. 10 launch for a Cygnus spacecraft that will carry scientific equipment and supplies to the International Space Station as part of the company’s eighth cargo resupply mission for NASA, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The space agency said Saturday an Orbital A...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 20, 2017 ” General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has supported the final data transmission of NASA‘s Cassini spacecraft before the Saturn orbiter ended its 13-year mission, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Friday it built the transponder or radio that Cassini had used to send images and other data about i...
AECOM (NYSE: ACM) has secured a potential five-year, $93 million hybrid contract from NASA to provide onsite engineering and architectural services at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California. NASA said Saturday AECOM will prepare designs related to facility modification, repair and maintenance efforts as well a...
A Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) subsidiary has received a potential $159 million contract from NASA to pack pressurised cargo for delivery to and from the International Space Station. Houston-based Leidos Innovations Corp. will provide NASA engineering sustainment services for transport hardware, flight crew equipment, simple payload facilities, payload ...
There are many technological features on Cassini that have enabled NASA to communicate with the spacecraft and allowed scientists to gather some of the worlds most advanced information and research regarding Saturn and its moon, Titan. Specifically, data from the spacecraft uses two General Dynamics Deep Space Transponders, which are chiefly respons...
