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ESA Taps Leonardo to Study Data Security Mgmt for European Navigation Satellite System

The European Space Agency has selected Leonardo to study ways to manage the cybersecurity of a European navigation satellite system. Leonardo said Wednesday it will create a benchmark architecture and establish requirements and processes for the information security management of the Galileo satellite program. The company aims to help the ESA build a security monitoring system for […] More

by Ramona Adams September 28, 2017, 9:20 am
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Thales to Help ESA Design Payload Module for Link Explorer Mission

Thales Alenia Space has inked a contract with the European Space Agency to help design the payload module for a joint science mission between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The module for the Solar Wind Magnetospheric Ionospheric Link Explorer (SMILE) will host customer furnished science instruments from China, Canada and the U.K., Thales said Monday. […] More

by Scott Nicholas September 26, 2017, 5:41 am
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Airbus to Provide Demonstrator for Gov’t Satcom Pooling Project in Europe

Airbus has received a contract from the European Space Agency to provide a service demonstrator for the Governmental Satellite Communications program that aims to update satellite communications capability in Europe. The two-year contract consists of a first phase that entails the production of a ground system that can facilitate the sharing of satellite functions as well […] More

by Nichols Martin September 12, 2017, 11:35 am
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Northrop Integrates Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Layers

Northrop Grumman has integrated the last defense layers of a sun shield system built to protect optics and instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope from heat. The company said Monday its aerospace systems business designed the sun shield layers that will work to help reduce the temperatures between cold and hot JWST components. Huntsville, Alabama-based NeXolve manufactured the […] More

by Scott Nicholas August 8, 2017, 9:32 am
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Serco Lands Potential $78M Contract for ESA Scientific, Engineering Services

Serco has won a potential five-year, $78.1 million “framework” contract to provide specialist scientific and engineering services to the European Space Agency. The company said Tuesday it will deploy skilled personnel to support ESA in 16 focus areas that include business management, data analysis, engineering, electromagnetics, information technology, navigation, optics, product assurance, robotics, space science and […] More

by Scott Nicholas August 2, 2017, 4:00 am
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NASA to Fund 9 Studies on Sun, Space Environment

NASA has chosen nine research proposals from government, industry and academic institutions that seek to study the sun and space environment. The agency said Friday proposals under the Explorers Program include five Heliophysics Small Explorer missions that will receive $1.25 million each to conduct an 11-month concept study as well as two Explorer Missions of Opportunity Small Complete […] More

by Ramona Adams July 31, 2017, 7:31 am
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Northrop Conducts STEM Outreach Efforts Via UK Screening of James Webb Space Telescope Documentary

Northrop Grumman has screened in the U.K. a documentary film on NASA“™s James Webb Space Telescope as part of the company“™s efforts to encourage students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. The film Into the Unknown focuses on the development of the space telescope designed to launch in late 2018 to gather information […] More

by Neel Mehta July 21, 2017, 12:00 am
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Northrop Receives Astro Aerospace-Built Boom Assemblies for NASA“™s Webb Telescope

Northrop Grumman has received the mid-boom assemblies from its Astro Aerospace subsidiary for integration with NASA“™s James Webb Space Telescope. Astro Aerospace designed and built two boom assemblies designed to deploy the telescope“™s sunshield component once in orbit, Northrop said Monday. Astro Aerospace delivered the assemblies to Northrop“™s Redondo Beach, California-based facility after it completed […] More

by Jane Edwards June 27, 2017, 7:37 am
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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

by Ramona Adams April 13, 2017, 9:31 am
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Auxiliary Engines for Lockheed-Built Orion Spacecraft; Eileen Drake, Mike Hawes Comment

Aerojet Rocketdyne has conducted hot-fire acceptance tests on eight auxiliary engines to be used on the inaugural flight of NASA‘s Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System next year. The company said Wednesday it oversees the development of auxiliary engines for the European Space Agency’s European Service Module that will provide air and water, temperature control, power and propulsion capacity for Orion crew […] More

by Scott Nicholas March 3, 2017, 3:32 am
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SpaceX’s Dragon Lifts Off With Science Experiments, Research Equipment Headed to ISS

The SpaceX-built Dragon spacecraft launched Sunday morning from NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a Falcon 9 rocket to deliver 5,500 pounds of experiments, research equipment and supplies to the International Space Station as part of the company’s 10th cargo resupply mission with the agency. NASA said Sunday the CRS-10 mission represents the first commercial launch from KSC’s […] More

by Scott Nicholas February 21, 2017, 4:50 am
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NASA to Deploy Ozone Measurement Payload to ISS

NASA plans to launch an instrument designed to measure Earth’s ozone as part of SpaceX‘s 10th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The agency said Saturday the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III on ISS payload will launch with the SpaceX-built Dragon spacecraft this month from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SAGE III will be attached to […] More

by Ramona Adams February 6, 2017, 1:30 pm

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