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A Northrop Grumman-built cargo spacecraft has reboosted the International Space Station to its desired altitude on orbit in preparation for future space operations. The company said Monday Cygnus used its main onboard engine to conduct station orbit adjustment several months after the spacecraft docked to the ISS to deliver equipment and supplies to the astronauts […] More
A Terran Orbital-built satellite was integrated aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket in preparation for a planned launch on Monday, June 27, from a launch complex in New Zealand in support of NASA’s Artemis program. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, also known as the CAPSTONE satellite, will lift off to test […] More
Vanguard Pacific, a Foley, Alabama-headquartered small business, has secured a potential $48.1 million contract from NASA for architect and engineering design services in support of the Marshall Space Flight Center. The Facilities Engineering Design and Inspection Services II contract encompasses master planning, surveillance, inspection and design services for construction projects worth $1 million or less, […] More
Spire Global will continue to provide NASA with access to its satellite and Earth observation data under a one-year contract extension awarded through the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition program. The company said Thursday it will deliver data collected from its radio occultation satellites to the agency to support weather forecasts, ionosphere monitoring and sea ice […] More
Northrop Grumman and NASA have tested the next Joint Polar Satellite System inside a thermal vacuum chamber to assess whether the spacecraft could work in simulated extreme temperatures. Engineers had to modify the testing environment for JPSS-2, which will support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s weather-forecasting mission, after they discovered thermal deformation due to an […] More
Radar developer Echodyne has raised $135 million in a round of funding and will use the capital to ramp up radar production and distribution and broaden its product lines for defense, autonomous machine and security applications. Northrop Grumman, Madrona Ventures, NEA, Vanedge Capital and Vulcan Capital participated in the financing round co-led by investment management […] More
NASA has indicated its intent to award SpaceX a contract modification to fly an additional five crewed missions as the agency seeks to ensure the availability of human transportation services to the International Space Station. The agency said Wednesday that SpaceX, which is currently the only company that secured certification under the Commercial Crew Transportation […] More
Sierra Nevada Corp.‘s space business and a Spirit AeroSystems subsidiary have teamed up to boost the production of cargo modules for a space transport vehicle aimed at supporting NASA resupply missions. Sierra Space said Tuesday it will work with Spirit Defense & Space on Shooting Star cargo module system design, fabrication, assembly, integration and test […] More
NASA is seeking offers to provide two of its offices with enterprise multimedia and integrated technical services needed to consolidate information technology-based communications. In a request for proposal published Tuesday on SAM.gov, NASA said its Office of Chief Information Technology and Office of Communications look to employ a single provider of digital multimedia and technical […] More
NASA has tapped Ball Aerospace and Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business to study the ocean color instrument for a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Earth observation satellite system. Each was awarded an approximately $5.2 million contract that covers the twenty-month Phase A Study under the Geostationary Extended Observations Program of NOAA, the space […] More
United Semiconductors, a New York-based small business that earlier received research sponsorship from the Air Force Research Laboratory, was awarded a spot on a three-year, $21 million contract from NASA for in-space manufacturing efforts. AFRL said Thursday United Semiconductors was tasked to create advanced materials or technologies under microgravity conditions to expand semiconductor crystal size […] More
The Boeing-built CST-100 Starliner spacecraft returned to Earth Wednesday by landing at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, marking the completion of the vehicle’s unmanned Orbital Flight Test-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA. “With the completion of OFT-2, we will incorporate lessons learned and continue working to prepare […] More
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