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TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 6, 2017 ” SSL has provided a two-axis gimbal equipment for NASA‘s Raven technology that was launched in February to the International Space Station, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the gimbal equipment is based on its Dual Access Positioning Mechanism and is designed t...
United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has won a contract to help NASA launch a polar-orbiting environmental weather satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NASA said Saturday the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 will launch aboard a ULA-bui...
Eight companies have received contracts worth a combined $17 million to help NASA advance small launch and space vehicle technologies under the second round of the agency’s Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships to Advance Tipping Point Technologies program. NASA said Thursday each contract contains a performa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 16, 2017 ” Parsons will provide program management, architectural design and construction management services to NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory under a contract award in support of an office upgrade project, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. “Parsons has a history of 40+ years providing engineering, p...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 7, 2017 ” NASA looks to launch an Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) Cygnus spacecraft on March 19 for the company’s seventh commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The space agency said Friday the spacecraft will be launched aboard a United Launch Allia...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu61shULKTk Satellite operator Iridium announced Tuesday, Jan. 31 its sharing a SpaceX rocket with NASA to launch its satellites more cheaply....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 1, 2017 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has closed a deal with SpaceX for the simultaneous launch of the former’s NEXT communications satellites and the NASA-GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences mission’s twin satellites, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Five Iridium NEXT satel...
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TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 27, 2017 ” NASA and the industry team working on the James Webb Space Telescope have resumed vibration tests following a shutdown of assessments in December due to a sensor reading anomaly, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The team comprised of Goddard Space Flight Center, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Orbi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 23, 2017 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has begun to develop an optical instrument assembly for NASA‘s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope to support the space agency’s dark energy and exoplanet research efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Scientists and engineers at Lockheed’s Advance...
