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  • Lockheed-Built Spacecraft Reaches Bennu Asteroid - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built Spacecraft Reaches Bennu Asteroid

    The Lockheed Martin-built Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer arrived Monday at the asteroid Bennu after a 1.2B-mile journey. NASA said Tuesday its navigation team will use preliminary survey data to prepare for OSIRIS-REx’s entrance to the potentially hazardous asteroid’s orbit on Dec. 31 to collect two ounces of regolith samples. The vehicle began maneuvers around Bennu […] More

  • Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Obtains First ‘Bennu’ Asteroid Images - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Obtains First ‘Bennu’ Asteroid Images

    A spacecraft that Lockheed Martin built for NASA captured the first images of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu on Aug. 17 from a 1.4M mile-distance nearly two years after the space vehicle launched aboard United Launch Vehicle’s Atlas V rocket. NASA said Saturday it expects the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft to arrive at […] More

  • Lockheed to Build Asteroid Exploration Spacecraft for a NASA Discovery Program Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Build Asteroid Exploration Spacecraft for a NASA Discovery Program Mission

    NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to build, design and operate spacecraft that would support research into the bulk physical properties, geology and surface composition of  six Jupiter Trojan asteroids orbiting the sun. Lockheed said Thursday the Lucy spacecraft will be built through one of NASA’s two new Discovery Program missions and that the agency established a $450 million cap for vehicle development. […] More

  • EaglePicher to Supply Power Source for Lockheed-Built NASA Solar System Study Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EaglePicher to Supply Power Source for Lockheed-Built NASA Solar System Study Spacecraft

    Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business has selected EaglePicher to provide a power source for the NASA Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft launched in September. EaglePicher said Monday it has provided 8-cell lithium batteries, the main spacecraft battery and two identical 28-volt, 30-ampere-hour batteries to power the return capsule as well as integrated battery […] More

  • Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Lifts Off for Asteroid Sampling Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Lifts Off for Asteroid Sampling Mission

    NASA launched a Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket on a mission to explore and collect a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Lockheed said Wednesday the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft separated from the Atlas V 411 rocket nearly an hour after launch, then autonomously deployed […] More

  • NASA OKs Sept. 8 Launch for Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft After Launch Readiness Review - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA OKs Sept. 8 Launch for Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft After Launch Readiness Review

    NASA has given the Lockheed Martin-built Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft the go-ahead to launch on Sept. 8 after the space vehicle passed a launch readiness evaluation Tuesday, Space News reported. Jeff Foust writes the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida onboard the United Launch Alliance-developed Atlas […] More

  • NASA to Launch Lockheed-Built Spacecraft for Asteroid Sample Return Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Launch Lockheed-Built Spacecraft for Asteroid Sample Return Mission

    A Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft is scheduled for liftoff on Sept. 8 from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket as part of a NASA  mission to survey a near-Earth asteroid and return a sample back home. Lockheed said the University of Arizona will lead the space agency’s seven-year Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer mission that aims to explore […] More

  • Lockheed Transports Asteroid Sampling Spacecraft to NASA for Launch Preparations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Transports Asteroid Sampling Spacecraft to NASA for Launch Preparations

    Lockheed Martin has shipped its asteroid sampling spacecraft to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final processing prior to the spacecraft’s launch toward an asteroid believed to hold answers about the solar system’s origin. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security – Regolith Explorer spacecraft was transported Friday from Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado […] More

  • Lockheed Kicks Off Environmental Tests on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft; Mike Donnelly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Kicks Off Environmental Tests on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft; Mike Donnelly Comments

    Lockheed Martin’s space systems business has begun the environmental testing phase on NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft at its facilities in Denver. NASA said Thursday it plans to launch the OSIRIS-REx space vehicle in September 2016 to collect samples of the Bennu asteroid for further research. Lockheed will subject the spacecraft to […] More