ATK and Northrop Grumman have jointly tested a backplane assembly for NASA‘s James Webb Telescope to determine if the platform could withstand the rigors of space travel and carry heavy payload. The telescope’s primary mirror backplane system is built to hold scientific instruments and beryllium mirror segments and will aim to minimize temperature-related changes in […] More

Ashish Mahadwar, formerly a Cognizant senior vice president, has joined Computer Sciences Corp. as executive vice president and general manager for that company’s strategic business. Mahadwar will report to CSC President and CEO Mike Lawrie and will be responsible for promoting growth in the company’s line of big data, cloud computing and cybersecurity products and services, the company said Wednesday. […] More

The Delta 2 rocket built by United Launch Alliance has carried a NASA carbon-monitoring satellite into space Wednesday, marking the rocket’s 51st launch mission for the space agency. “It is our honor to launch this important mission that will gather the scientific data to better understand planet earth,” Jim Sponnick, ULA vice president for Atlas […] More

A spacecraft Orbital Sciences built for NASA is set to blast off Tuesday morning on a two-year mission to measure carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmoshphere. Orbital Sciences will launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite aboard a Delta II rocket Tuesday at 2:56 a.m. Pacific Time from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the company […] More

Iridium Communications will demonstrate a NAL Research-built tracking device that provides position and location information as part of the U.S. Army‘s Network Integration Evaluation process for commercial communications technology. The company said Monday the Enhanced Mobile Satellite System Beacon is designed to support geo-fencing and integration with the Nett Warrior system to track military personnel and assets in […] More

Lockheed Martin is set to begin construction on a robotic probe that NASA plans to send Mars to examine that planet’s interior. NASA plans to launch the Insight lander from a California site in March 2016 and expects the spacecraft to reach its destination six months later, Lockheed said Monday. The project aims to study […] More

Verizon has completed almost 17,000 miles of fiber optic work in New York City in an effort to meet data and voice communication needs of residential and business customers throughout the city. The company’s goal is to deliver high-speed connectivity by building an all fiber infrastructure  that encompasses the city’s five boroughs, Verizon said Thursday. […] More

Cubic Corp. has moved to highlight its engineering services worldwide by launching a new corporate brand and logo. Cubic Founder Walter Zable chose the new design, which bears the company’s name after a cube that encompasses the planet’s western hemisphere to represent Cubic’s global footprint, Cubic said Tuesday. “Our new corporate branding underscores and demonstrates […] More

Lockheed Martin will start building a spacecraft that NASA will use to collect particles from a near-Earth asteroid and return those samples to the planet for analysis. An independent review panel has validated Lockheed’s design plan for the spacecraft, instruments and ground system under NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer program, Lockheed said […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has performed internal environment assessments on a remote-sensing satellite the company developed for DigitalGlobe and designed to collect Earth imagery. DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 spacecraft features a Ball Aerospace technology that is built to monitor atmospheric conditions and photograph objects through haze, soot and dust, DigitalGlobe said Tuesday. Cary Ludtke, Ball Aerospace […] More

Lockheed Martin and the University of Arizona have handed over to NASA an imaging instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope ahead of a deep space research in 2018. The near infrared camera technology has been integrated into the telescope’s integrated science instrument module to function as the primary imaging component, Lockheed said Wednesday. Marcia Rieke, […] More

A Xerox subsidiary has been awarded a potential $2 million contract to develop and demonstrate a self-destructing sensor technology for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. PARC and DARPA intend for the Disintegration Upon Stress-Release Trigger system to use a mechanism to shatter microchip-based electronics on command, PARC said Tuesday. This technology development work […] More