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  • Australia's GPS Cubesat Payload Deploys From Space Station Into Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Australia’s GPS Cubesat Payload Deploys From Space Station Into Orbit

    The International Space Station has delivered a cube satellite with a global positioning system payload, developed by Australia’s space engineering research center and the University of New South Wales, to orbit using a NanoRacks deployer. The Australian defense department said Tuesday the Namaru GPS technology on board the U.S.-built Biarri-Point cubesat will support on-orbit research activities. Australia’s defense science and technology […] More

  • Orbital ATK Completes 7th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Completes 7th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission

    Orbital ATK has concluded its seventh cargo delivery mission to International Space Station as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. The company said Sunday its Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed S.S. John Glen, also served as a platform for in-space research before the vehicle re-entered Earth’s atmosphere. S.S. John Glenn was launched atop a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V […] More

  • Orbital ATK’s Cygnus Arrives at Space Station for 7th Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK’s Cygnus Arrives at Space Station for 7th Cargo Resupply Mission

    An Orbital ATK-built Cygnus spacecraft has arrived at the International Space Station to deliver approximately 7,600 pounds of crew supplies, food, clothing, spare parts, scientific experiments and laboratory equipment. The S.S. John Glenn spacecraft reached ISS Saturday and completed berthing procedures days after its April 18 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket to mark Orbital ATK’s seventh […] More

  • Orbital ATK Sets April 18 Launch Date for 7th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Sets April 18 Launch Date for 7th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission

    Orbital ATK is scheduled Tuesday to begin the company’s seventh cargo resupply mission that will transport scientific research, supplies and hardware to the International Space Station for NASA. A company-built Cygnus spacecraft, nicknamed S.S. John Glenn, will launch atop United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to deliver more than 7,600 pounds of cargo to […] More

  • NASA Eyes March 19 Launch for Orbital ATK’s 7th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Eyes March 19 Launch for Orbital ATK’s 7th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission

    NASA aims to launch on March 19 an Orbital ATK-built Cygnus spacecraft to perform the seventh cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station. Orbital ATK’s Cygnus will have a 30-minute launch window that will start at approximately 10:56 p.m. Eastern time and will take off aboard a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air […] More

  • Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems Awarded NASA CubeSat Development Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems Awarded NASA CubeSat Development Contract

    Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems has been awarded a contract to build a series of miniaturized satellites to support missions under NASA‘s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator program. NASA said Wednesday its Small Spacecraft Technology Program will use CubeSats from the company with government-furnished technology payloads to conduct multiple flight demonstrations. Tyvak will develop a six-unit CubeSat equipped with solar arrays designed to supply at least […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL’s CubeSat for Earth Radiation Imbalance Study Launches Aboard Atlas V Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL’s CubeSat for Earth Radiation Imbalance Study Launches Aboard Atlas V Rocket

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has developed a CubeSat designed to collect the Earth’s radiation imbalance measurements for use in climate change predictions. Johns Hopkins APL’s Radiometer Assessment using Vertically Aligned Nanotubes CubeSat is one of the seven small-satellite payloads that took off on Nov. 11 aboard the United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket, APL […] More

  • Orbital ATK’s Cygnus Spacecraft Arrives at ISS For 6th Cargo Resupply Mission; Frank Culbertson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK’s Cygnus Spacecraft Arrives at ISS For 6th Cargo Resupply Mission; Frank Culbertson Comments

    The Orbital ATK-built Cygnus spacecraft has arrived at the International Space Station to deliver approximately 5,300 pounds of crew supplies, scientific experiments and laboratory equipment. The S.S. Alan Poindexter space vehicle reached ISS Sunday and completed berthing procedures seven days after it launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to mark Orbital ATK’s sixth cargo delivery mission […] More

  • NASA Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne to Support CubeSat 'Green' Propulsion System Maturity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne to Support CubeSat ‘Green’ Propulsion System Maturity

    NASA has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a contract to support the technology maturity of a CubeSat “green” propulsion system that works to boost maneuverability, safety and performance compared with systems using traditional hydrazine propellants. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday the AF-M315E green propellant for the MPS-130 propulsion system serves to drive CubeSat and SmallSat development in terms of mission life extension, architecture resiliency and ability to perform proximity […] More

  • Air Force Seeks to Increase Radio Signal Range Through CubeSat-Delivered Plasma - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks to Increase Radio Signal Range Through CubeSat-Delivered Plasma

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded contracts to three teams to perform research and development work on long-range radio communications through the use of small satellites or CubeSats designed to release plasma bombs in the ionosphere, New Scientist reported Tuesday. David Hambling writes General Sciences and Drexel University have teamed up to develop a technique that […] More

  • Lockheed, NASA Ink Lunar Imaging CubeSat Deployment Deal; James Russell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, NASA Ink Lunar Imaging CubeSat Deployment Deal; James Russell Comments

    Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement to deploy a six-unit miniaturized lunar research satellite as part of NASA‘s Orion Exploration Mission-1 in 2018. Lockheed said Monday the SkyFire satellite is designed with an infrared camera that will work to capture high-quality images of the moon’s surface. NASA will receive SkyFire-gathered data during the EM-1 mission as part of the agreement. “The CubeSat […] More

  • 7 NRO CubeSats to Fly With DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 Satellite on Atlas V Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    7 NRO CubeSats to Fly With DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 Satellite on Atlas V Rocket

    DigitalGlobe has announced plans to launch seven miniaturized satellites onboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket as part of the rideshare program for the WorldView-4 mission. Seven National Reconnaissance Office-sponsored CubeSats will fly onboard the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s rocket that is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in mid-September to bring […] More