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NASA has awarded Axiom Space a potential $140M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to build a habitable module that would connect to the International Space Station to support the agency's initiative of promoting commercial use of the orbiting laboratory.

Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) reorganized its business into three segments - space infrastructure, Earth intelligence and MDA – in 2019 in an effort to streamline its operating structure and position the company for future growth, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.

SpaceX has been selected to help NASA launch scientific payloads to an asteroid located between Jupiter and Mars as part of an estimated $117M effort to study planet collisions and metal particles in the solar system.

NASA is accepting bids from 14 companies under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program to send a space exploration payload to the moon’s polar regions to study water ice elements.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 25, 2020 — Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) and four-time Wash100 awardee, said government agencies increasingly turn to commercial platforms, imagery and services to perform missions, ExecutiveBiz reported Feb. 19.

Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Stu Shea, chairman, president & CEO of Peraton, his fourth Wash100 Award as part of the 2020 selection on Wednesday. 

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Mark Gray, president and CEO of ASRC Federal, as an inductee of the 2020 Wash100 Award for driving the company’s revenue through major contract wins and ensuring the delivery of exceptional services to government clients. This is Gray’s sixth consecutive Wash100 Award.

George Morrow, former acting director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, has been named vice president of space strategy at ASRC Federal. He will be responsible for expanding ASRC Federal's business relationships in the government sector and growing its space-related offerings in adjacent markets, the company said Monday.

NASA is seeking industry input on approaches to develop a lunar terrain vehicle for potential use by mission crew and a robotic  system for mobility application on the moon's surface.

SpaceX has secured a potential $80.4M contract from NASA to send a satellite with the Falcon 9 rocket to space on a mission to study the oceanographic and atmospheric elements of global climate change.