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Boeing (NYSE: BA) has scheduled an unmanned test flight of a private space taxi to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s commercial crew program, the Space Reporter reported Sunday. Annika Darling writes that Boeing plans to launch the CST-100 spacecraft in early 2017 from Cape Canaveral, Fla. on an Atlas V rocket. NASA...
Terry Thompson, the former vice president for energy and environment at Airbus subsidiary Metron Aviation, has joined LMI to work with the aviation industry to address environmental impacts and concerns, among other responsibilities. Shahab Hasan, program director for LMI’s operations and cost analysis, said Monday that...
Ronald Spoehel, former chief financial officer at NASA, has been appointed to the board of directors at Global Defense and National Security Systems (NASDAQ: GDEF). He will officially start the role on April 28 and succeed John Gannon, who will depart for a senior advisory position within the U.S. government, GDEF said Friday...
A United Launch Alliance subsidiary has been awarded a $172.7 million contract to launch a NASA spacecraft that is designed for solar research, The Motley Fool reported Tuesday. Rich Smith writes United Launch Services LLC will work to integrate the Solar Orbiter‘s payload, monitor the spacecraft’s flight and track the mission’s telemetry...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a $185 million contract modification to update a common ground system for three National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration environmental satellites. The company will refresh ground station technology for the Joint Polar Satellite System, which works to gather weather and storm data from polar-orbiting spac...
ASRC Federal Space and Defense has won a two-year extension to its Multidiscipline Engineering and Technology Services II contract with NASA for a $110 million maximum value. ASRC Federal said Thursday the bridge contract continues its systems engineering support and other services for the James Webb Space Telescope and various missions at NASA’s...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has concluded a series of software and hardware reviews for the company’s crew transport spacecraft under NASA’s requirements. The company completed the wind tunnel tests for the launch vehicle adapter that works to connect the Crew Space Transportation-100 spacecraft to a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket, Boeing s...
NASA and industry partners are working to prepare and assess spacecraft and components that are scheduled for deep space missions in 2014 and 2017. The Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)-built Orion unmanned spacecraft is scheduled to launch in the fall and the Space Launch System is set for its first flight in 2017, Aerojet Rocketdyne said...
Michael Ryschkewitsch, NASA’s chief engineer, will join Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in January as space sector leader. He will be responsible for some of the lab’s systems engineering work for military and NASA space science programs, APL said Monday. Ralph Semmel, APL director, said Ryschkewitsch will aim to lever...
Doyle Choi, a 17-year veteran of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and a former chief technology officer there, has joined SRA International as vice president of growth for the civil government group. He will lead a team of business development, capture and proposal professionals that will work to support the group’s objectives and goals, SRA said...
