NASA is seeking landing system concepts that can support its goals of sending astronauts to the moon in 2024 and achieving sutainability on the lunar surface by 2028 through the Artemis program.
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NASA has awarded 14 companies contracts worth approximately $43.2M combined to develop technologies for the space agency’s lunar and Mars exploration programs.
Read More »Lockheed Awarded Potential $4.6B NASA Orion Production IDIQ; Rick Ambrose Quoted
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential $4.6B indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from NASA to produce six Orion spacecraft to transport astronauts to the moon.
Read More »HPE, NASA Develop ‘Aitken’ Supercomputer to Support Manned Lunar Missions
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has developed a supercomputer named after astronomer Robert Grant Aitken designed to help NASA’s Ames Research Center run modeling and simulations to support the space agency’s lunar missions.
Read More »NASA Seeks Proposals for $2.6B On-Ramp Lunar Payload Delivery Support IDIQ
NASA has asked industry to propose platforms that will work to deliver science and technology payloads to the moon's surface as part of the on-ramping process for the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Read More »GovCon Wire’s Weekly Roundup: Border Protection Infrastructure & The New Space-Race
Weekly Roundup April 24 – April 28 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson For months, we’ve all been reading about the proposed wall along our nation’s southern borders, headlines describing the billions of dollars that will be needed to fund such …
Read More »Lockheed to Deploy Lunar Imaging CubeSat With 2018 NASA Orion Mission
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 10, 2016 — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will launch a CubeSat lunar research satellite with Orion‘s Exploration Mission-1 in 2018 under a contract with NASA, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the SkyFire miniature satellite will be equipped with an infrared camera and work to capture images of …
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