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  • SpaceX Eyes More National Security Business Opportunities Through Starshield Unit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Eyes More National Security Business Opportunities Through Starshield Unit

    In pursuing a stronger presence in federal contracting, SpaceX has launched the Starshield satellite network, which is geared towards national security support for government organizations. Utilizing the company’s existing Starlink technology, the Starshield business aims to focus on the areas of earth observation, communications and hosted payloads. Starshield’s website states that the satellite network provides secure data […] More

  • Air Products to Supply NASA KSC Liquid Hydrogen Under $75M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Products to Supply NASA KSC Liquid Hydrogen Under $75M Contract

    Air Products and Chemicals will supply liquid hydrogen to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida under a potential $75 million contract. The award covers the procurement of 7.5 million pounds of the chemical, the agency said Thursday. Pennsylvania-based Air Products was previously awarded $57.3 million to provide 13.1 million […] More

  • Small Business APT Wins $67M NASA Mission Assurance Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Small Business APT Wins $67M NASA Mission Assurance Support Contract

    Huntsville, Alabama-based small business A-P-T Research has won a potential $67 million contract for safety and mission assurance support services to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Work under the fixed-price, level-of-effort SMASS IV contract will include assessment and analysis of risks to exploration ground systems and various KSC-managed efforts such as the Commercial Crew […] More

  • UbiQD Receives NASA Contract, US Patent for Greenhouse Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UbiQD Receives NASA Contract, US Patent for Greenhouse Tech

    Advanced materials company UbiQD aims to further develop its fluorescent quantum dot technology for greenhouse roofing applications under a small business contract from NASA. NASA will provide funds that match private investment commitments to help expand the UbiGro product for potential use in space crop production, the New Mexico-based company said Monday. The technology, which […] More

  • Lockheed-Built Orion Spacecraft Travels Past Moon; Bill Nelson Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built Orion Spacecraft Travels Past Moon; Bill Nelson Quoted

    Lockheed Martin‘s uncrewed Orion capsule has surpassed the farthest distance ever traveled by a human-rated spacecraft, CNN reported Monday. NASA confirmed that the capsule, which launched Nov. 16 aboard the Space Launch System powered by Boeing‘s core stage, has so far flown 270,000 miles from Earth. The distance is more than 40,000 miles past the […] More

  • Honeybee Robotics Books NASA Contract to Support Mars Sample Return Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeybee Robotics Books NASA Contract to Support Mars Sample Return Systems

    Honeybee Robotics, a research, development and manufacturing engineering company, has landed a $17.7 million contract to support NASA’s construction of the Mars Sample Return Capture, Containment and Retrieval System. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Honeybee will provide manpower, services, equipment and facilities for the CCRS Earth Entry System and its component, the Spin Eject Mechanism, the […] More

  • NASA Continues Sustainable Jet Fuel Study on Boeing's ecoDemonstrator With Rolls-Royce Engine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Continues Sustainable Jet Fuel Study on Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator With Rolls-Royce Engine

    Boeing and NASA conducted a field test to determine the carbon emission rate from using sustainable fuel blends on the 2022 ecoDemonstrator aircraft powered by 26-year-old Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines. NASA said the study advances a goal similar with Boeing’s to adopt alternative fuels in order to reduce aerospace-related carbon footprint. Researchers compared the amount […] More

  • ADNET Awarded NASA Space & Earth Science Data Analysis IV Contract Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ADNET Awarded NASA Space & Earth Science Data Analysis IV Contract Extension

    ADNET Systems will continue to support planetary studies, solar and space plasma physics, oceanography, solid earth geographics, geodynamics, atmospheric science and climatology and other science disciplines under a six-month contract extension awarded by NASA through the fourth iteration of the Space and Earth Science Data Analysis program. The potential $36 million extension brings the total […] More

  • Air Products, Linde to Supply Liquid Hydrogen to NASA Under $80M Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Products, Linde to Supply Liquid Hydrogen to NASA Under $80M Contracts

    NASA will purchase 15 million lbs of liquid hydrogen from Linde and Air Products and Chemicals under two agreements potentially worth more than $80 million. The two-year, multiple firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery contracts take effect Dec. 1, with an option to extend to Nov. 30, 2025, the space agency said Tuesday. Liquid hydrogen serves as cryogenic rocket […] More

  • NASA Handpicks GeoOptics for Commercial Satellite Data Collection Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Handpicks GeoOptics for Commercial Satellite Data Collection Work

    GeoOptics will provide commercial small constellation satellite data products to NASA to help scale agency-collected data for future use. The technology company will deliver a catalog of its commercial high-resolution Earth observation data products, which will include data sets, associated metadata and collateral information, data cadence, data latency, area coverage and data usage policy under […] More

  • Boeing's X-37B Spacecraft Concludes 6th Orbital Test Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s X-37B Spacecraft Concludes 6th Orbital Test Mission

    Boeing’s X-37B spacecraft landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Saturday following a 908-day on-orbit stint that was its sixth Orbital Test Vehicle mission with the U.S. Space Force. The unmanned reusable spacecraft hosted multiple payloads for the U.S. military and partners including the Naval Research Laboratory’s solar energy project and the U.S. Air Force […] More

  • Pratt & Whitney to Develop Small Core Engine Combustor Under NASA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pratt & Whitney to Develop Small Core Engine Combustor Under NASA Contract

    Pratt & Whitney has received a two-year contract from NASA to come up with combustor designs for small core engines to help reduce fuel consumption for single-aisle aircraft. The contract was awarded under the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core project, which is part of the space agency’s Sustainable Flight National Partnership that seeks to advance the […] More