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  • NASA’s Lunar Payload Delivery Support Contract Paves Way for Industry Partnerships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA’s Lunar Payload Delivery Support Contract Paves Way for Industry Partnerships

    Some industry executives have said that NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program has provided companies an opportunity to advance their technology platforms and form partnerships with additional firms, SpaceNews reported Thursday. “Going back to the moon with commercial technology opens the floodgates,” said Grant Anderson, president, CEO and co-founder of Paragon Space Development, which teams […] More

  • SSL Demos Solar Electric Spacecraft Propulsion Tech; Dario Zamarian Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL Demos Solar Electric Spacecraft Propulsion Tech; Dario Zamarian Quoted

    SSL demonstrated its solar electric propulsion system on two communications satellites that were launched into geostationary orbit this year. The Maxar Technologies subsidiary said Wednesday SPT-140 is an updated version of the SPT-100 electric thruster that has supported 34 missions and logged more than 100K firing hours. SPT-140 is designed to use the Power Processing Unit 140 and multiple gimbaled Hall effect thrusters […] More

  • Sierra Nevada Advances Orbital Vehicle Project With NASA; Fatih Ozmen Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sierra Nevada Advances Orbital Vehicle Project With NASA; Fatih Ozmen Quoted

    NASA has announced that a reusable, multi-mission orbital vehicle by Sierra Nevada Corp. is now ready for full-scale manufacturing and testing after passing an integration review validating its design performance. The company said Tuesday it has already started integrating critical parts of the Dream Chaser spacecraft, including major structural components, thermal protection system tiles and […] More

  • Rocket Lab Sends NASA Small Research Satellites Into Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rocket Lab Sends NASA Small Research Satellites Into Orbit

    Rocket Lab launched 10 cubesats into space on Sunday morning as part of its Venture Class Launch Services agreement with NASA. The company said Sunday its Electron rocket lifted off with the small research satellites at 1:33 a.m. Eastern time in Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. Three NASA centers, one middle school and seven universities built the cubesats through the Educational […] More

  • Virgin Galactic's Piloted Spacecraft Carries NASA Tech Payloads in Suborbital Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Virgin Galactic’s Piloted Spacecraft Carries NASA Tech Payloads in Suborbital Flight Test

    Virgin Galactic has completed a flight test of a company-built manned space vehicle carrying four NASA technology experiments to suborbital space. The agency said Thursday SpaceShipTwo‘s payloads were designed to examine the behavior of dust particles on planetary surfaces, the effects of microgravity on life support systems and plant growth, and vibration during launch, re-entry […] More

  • Northrop Demos Orion Abort Motor in Static Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos Orion Abort Motor in Static Test

    Northrop Grumman has evaluated a motor for the launch abort system of NASA‘s Orion spacecraft through a ground-firing test held at its Promontory, Utah-based facility. The abort motor fired upward for five seconds with flames going approximately 100 feet high and generated about 350K pounds of thrust in half a quarter of a second during the Qualification […] More

  • NASA Seeks Industry Partners to Build Human Lunar Landers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks Industry Partners to Build Human Lunar Landers

    NASA aims to partner with U.S.-based companies to design and develop new reusable landing platforms designed to bring astronauts back to the lunar surface. The agency said Friday it plans to begin testing of new landers on the moon in 2024 through multiphase partnerships in support of its goal to launch a crewed mission in 2028. […] More

  • Collins Aerospace to Develop Space Trash Compactor System for NASA; Shawn Macleod Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Collins Aerospace to Develop Space Trash Compactor System for NASA; Shawn Macleod Quoted

    Collins Aerospace, a company formed by Rockwell Collins and United Technologies Corp.’s aerospace systems business, has designed a waste management platform that decreases the volume of space trash by 93 percent. The firm said Wednesday it developed the concept of an integrated Trash Compaction and Processing System as part of NASA’s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 […] More

  • NASA Seeks New Planetary Science Investigations for Discovery Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks New Planetary Science Investigations for Discovery Program

    NASA has released a draft funding opportunity that seeks new planetary studies to support the space agency’s Discovery Program. The agency said Wednesday it plans to allocate $500M for up to five projects in fiscal year 2019. The Discovery Program offers flight opportunities to science investigations that could help expand the agency’s understanding of planetary […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Secures DARPA Propulsion Tech Development Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Secures DARPA Propulsion Tech Development Contract

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has received a potential two-year, $13.4M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop propulsion systems for a ground-launched tactical weapon platform. The contract was awarded in support of DARPA’s Operational Fires program that aims to build new mobile missile technologies, the company said Tuesday. The OpFires initiative seeks to meet the […] More

  • NASA, General Dynamics Test Updated Space Network Ground Systems; Manny Mora Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, General Dynamics Test Updated Space Network Ground Systems; Manny Mora Quoted

    A General Dynamics business unit and NASA have completed a laboratory assessment of new ground infrastructure systems designed to help the agency manage a constellation of tracking and data relay satellites. General Dynamics Mission Systems supported the final system acceptance test at a facility in Scottsdale, Ariz., as part of the Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment project, the company […] More

  • Maxar Subsidiary's Laser Tech Scans Bennu for Asteroid Sample Return Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maxar Subsidiary’s Laser Tech Scans Bennu for Asteroid Sample Return Mission

    A laser altimeter instrument Maxar Technologies‘ MDA subsidiary built for a NASA space probe has began to scan and collect data of the asteroid Bennu. MDA provided the light detection and ranging sensor technology that currently supports the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer under a contract with the Canadian space agency, Maxar said Monday. NASA launched the spacecraft in […] More