ASRC Federal will serve as a subcontractor to Space & Technology Solutions on the $719 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Services III contract it had received from NASA earlier this year. ASRC Federal said Thursday that under the deal, two of its subsidiaries will provide hardware and software engineering services to help develop and validate technologies that would enable future NASA space and science missions, including those for the Joint Polar Satellite Systems and Exploration and In-Space Services programs.

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A joint venture between KBR and Intuitive Machines will perform multidisciplinary engineering services under a $719 million contract awarded earlier this year to enhance the space orbital capabilities of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Services include electrical engineering, instrument systems and technology, exploration and mission support as well as mission engineering and systems analysis for the […] More

Intuitive Machines will support NASA’s priority objectives for the Artemis program by redirecting the landing site of its first mission to the South Pole Region on the moon. The company said Monday the IM-1 mission is scheduled to deploy its Nova-C lander to the lunar surface’s South Pole region by late June. “Redirecting Intuitive Machines’ […] More

Jacobs has partnered with Intuitive Machines to address mission requirements at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas under a potential $3.9 billion contract the agency awarded in July 2022. The partnership aims to help center personnel engineer systems, implement scientific products and perform technical work through the Engineering, Technology and Science II program, Intuitive Machines […] More

Intuitive Machines has selected SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to deploy a lunar lander that will carry an ice drilling instrument and a mass spectrometer as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.

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Intuitive Machines is slated to launch its Nova-C lunar lander aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to carry five NASA payloads to the moon in 2021 under the Artemis program.

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Lockheed Martin’s space systems company has awarded a potential five-year, $50 million contract to Deep Space Systems for technical services in support of Lockheed’s work for commercial and NASA programs. Deep Space Systems will serve as prime contractor to Lockheed and Intuitive Machines is a teammate of DSS for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Intuitive Machines said Wednesday. Intuitive Machines will take in […] More

The Air Force Research Laboratory has advanced a two-track program that seeks to mature technologies to facilitate the development of spacecraft that use nuclear electric power systems with the award of three contracts to Lockheed Martin, Intuitive Machines and Westinghouse Government Services.

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Axiom Space will construct a 14-acre headquarters campus at Houston Spaceport where the company plans to build a habitable space station module for NASA and train private astronauts for missions.

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The “exorbitant” amount of data being taken in by the U.S. Army is impacting the effectiveness of warfighters and commanders, and the service branch’s leaders say they actually need less of it. “Information overload is real. Data overload is real,” said Young Bang, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, during a panel discussion at the ExecutiveBiz Army Acquisition Priorities: Balancing Readiness and Modernization Forum on Wednesday.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a Proposers Day on Oct. 18 in Arlington, Va., to provide information on a program that seeks to introduce human common sense reasoning and knowledge into artificial intelligence-based machines. “The absence of common sense prevents an intelligent system from understanding its world, communicating naturally with people, behaving reasonably […] More