SpaceX has secured a contract modification from NASA to integrate its Starship launch system into the NASA Launch Services II program. The Texas-headquartered company said the modification, under the NLS II contract, expands its launch service offerings beyond the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. NLS II Contracts to Aid NASA Space Missions The multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity […] More

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is requesting information on small businesses capable of providing engineering and technical support for its Launch Services Program, or LSP. The potential contractor is expected to deliver end-to-end launch services for the space agency’s mission under a planned Evolving Launch Vehicle Integrated Support, or ELVIS, 4 contract, according to a Tuesday […] More

Nova Space Solutions, a joint venture between Chugach Government Solutions and Amentum, has received an $822.7 million NASA contract for consolidated operations, services and maintenance infrastructure at Stennis Space Center and Michoud Assembly Facility. Commenting on the award, Dirk van der Vaart, president of Chugach Government Solutions, said in a statement Thursday, “Our [JV] with Amentum brings together Amentum’s […] More

NASA has issued a solicitation to provide technical integration support for multiple human space flight missions, including the International Space Station Program, Orion Program and Gateway Program. The Mission Technical Integration Contract, or MTIC, requires a range of services, such as program management, business management, configuration and data management, information technology, systems engineering and integration, […] More

NASA has awarded the Glenn Logistics and Metrology contract to Apache Innovations JV. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based small business will provide logistics support to the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, NASA said Wednesday.  The GLAM program is potentially worth $72.3 million with a period of performance of about five years, including […] More

Viasat has secured a spot on NASA’s Near Space Network Services contract, which seeks to provide commercial ground and space relay support for the agency’s upcoming missions in low Earth orbit and up to 2 million kilometers from Earth. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract comes with a period of performance of five years and an option […] More

Rocket Lab has announced the addition of its new Neutron rocket to NASA’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare, or VADR, contract. Its small orbital launch vehicle Electron is already under VADR contract and demonstrated capabilities in the NASA PREFIRE and TROPICS missions, the company said Thursday. Rocket Lab described Neutron as a medium-lift reusable […] More

NASA has awarded Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory a $20.5 million contract to develop two Suprathermal Ion Sensor instruments for the Lagrange 1 Series project satellites under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Next Program. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Johns Hopkins APL is expected to complete the sensor development work, including performing […] More

Bastion Technologies, an engineering and technical services company, has secured a potential $53 million Center Occupational Safety, Health, Medical, System Safety and Mission Assurance Contract, or COSMC, from NASA. NASA COMSC Scope The agency said Friday the Houston, Texas-based company will provide support services for NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee […] More

NASA has awarded Advanced Space a contract to extend the mission of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, 12U cubesat. CAPSTONE, operating in the near rectilinear halo orbit, serves as a software test bed and informs NASA with significant data about navigation and operations in NRHO, where the Lunar […] More

NASA has awarded Rocket Lab a contract to study how it can deliver rock samples from the Martian surface to scientists on Earth. The company said Monday that findings from the study will inform NASA’s Mars Sample Return Program and may result in further industry partnerships in the future. The study will assess the viability […] More

Kepler Communications US, a subsidiary of Kepler Communications, is collaborating with NASA to share meaningful examples of fundamental NASA mission use cases. Through the Space Act Agreement under NASA’s Communications Services Project, Kepler will provide the agency with insight into the company’s space data-relay technologies, the satellite communications company announced Thursday. Robert Conrad, vice president of business […] More