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  • NASA Selects KBR to Study Commercial Feasibility of Low-Earth Orbit Industry - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Selects KBR to Study Commercial Feasibility of Low-Earth Orbit Industry

    KBR’s government services arm has earned NASA’s nod as one of 13 contract awardees who will conduct research on potential commercial opportunities in low-Earth orbit. The contract tasks KBRwyle to develop strategies on how to provide affordable LEO-related technology and encourage commercial and government use of systems designed for LEO, KBR said Monday. The company is additionally […] More

  • UP Aerospace Helps NASA Launch Space Tech Demo Payloads - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UP Aerospace Helps NASA Launch Space Tech Demo Payloads

    NASA has launched three space technology demonstration payloads on a UP Aerospace-built rocket as part of the agency’s Flight Opportunities program. UP Aerospace’s SpaceLoft 12 suborbital launch vehicle carrying the instruments lifted off Wednesday at Spaceport America in New Mexico, NASA said Thursday. The mission tested the deployment sequence and entry performance of the Adaptable Deployable […] More

  • NASA, ULA Partner for Cryogenic Fluid Mgmt, Spacecraft Retrieval Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, ULA Partner for Cryogenic Fluid Mgmt, Spacecraft Retrieval Projects

    NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center has partnered with United Launch Alliance to develop systems to manage cryogenic liquid and retrieve space vehicles in midair. The Lockheed Martin–Boeing joint venture will receive $2 million to demonstrate how very-low cryogenic fuel boil off can support long-duration missions with the Centaur Cryote-3 rocket stage under the Cryogenic Fluid Management Technology Demonstration effort, NASA said Thursday. The agency’s Kennedy Space […] More

  • Aerospace Corp.’s Randy Kendall: Space Tech Drives Renewed Military Interest in Startups - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerospace Corp.’s Randy Kendall: Space Tech Drives Renewed Military Interest in Startups

    Randy Kendall, vice president of launch program operations at Aerospace Corp., has said the U.S. military has showed renewed interest in partnering with commercial space startups driven by technological advances and space-based national security threats, SpaceNews reported Sunday. “Today feels like 1998, that was the last time we had the same level of enthusiasm with […] More

  • Maxar to Transfer Corporate HQ to Westminster, Colorado - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maxar to Transfer Corporate HQ to Westminster, Colorado

    Maxar Technologies will relocate its corporate headquarters from San Francisco, California, to DigitalGlobe’s existing facility in Westminster, Colorado. “This move represents an opportunity to bring together our executive leadership team in a common location, as well as to establish a base for our future shared-services organizations,” Howard Lance, Maxar president and CEO, said in a statement […] More

  • NASA Seeks Grant Applications for University Space Tech Research Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks Grant Applications for University Space Tech Research Projects

    NASA plans to award up to $600,000 over three years to university-led research projects that aim to address “high-priority” technology areas of interest to U.S. space programs. The space agency said Saturday its Space Technology Mission Directorate seeks proposals from accredited universities through the Early Career Faculty appendix of the “Space Technology Research, Development, Demonstration and Infusion 2018” solicitation, […] More

  • DARPA, Space Systems Loral Reach Draft Partnership Agreement on On-Orbit Robotic Servicer R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Space Systems Loral Reach Draft Partnership Agreement on On-Orbit Robotic Servicer R&D

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Space Systems Loral have drafted a partnership agreement to develop technologies that would facilitate autonomous repair and maintenance of satellites in geosynchronous orbit. Both parties aim to jointly fund and perform technology development efforts under the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program as part of the agreement, DARPA said Thursday. The RSGS public-private partnership is subject to review […] More

  • NASA Picks 8 Faculty Researchers for Space Tech Development Grants - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Picks 8 Faculty Researchers for Space Tech Development Grants

    NASA has awarded grants to eight faculty researchers to perform research and development work on novel space technology platforms for up to three years. The space agency said Thursday the faculty members will receive up to $200,000 in annual funds as part of NASA’s Space Technology Research Grants program. NASA selected research proposals that seek […] More

  • NASA Seeks Early Stage Tech Proposals from Universities for Future Space Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks Early Stage Tech Proposals from Universities for Future Space Missions

    NASA has started its solicitation of early-stage space technology proposals from universities to support the agency’s future space programs that include a human exploration of Mars. The agency said Thursday its space technology mission directorate plans to grant $500,000 each for 10 to 12 proposals from accredited U.S. universities. “We’d like to see Early Stage Innovations proposals that address our need for unique, disruptive […] More

  • BAE, IDT Offer RapidIO Microchip for Data Transfer in Space; Ian McDonald Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, IDT Offer RapidIO Microchip for Data Transfer in Space; Ian McDonald Comments

    The U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems and Integrated Device Technology have collaborated to develop a space-grade microchip that works to support high-speed, high-volume data transfers during space operations. IDT said Wednesday its 240 Gbps CPS-1848 RapidIO switch serves as the foundation for BAE Systems Inc.’s RADNET1848-PS technology. Ian McDonald, director of space products and processing at BAE Systems Inc., noted that the microchip supports efforts […] More

  • Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK to Sponsor Space Tech Conference; Richard Jackson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK to Sponsor Space Tech Conference; Richard Jackson Comments

    Lockheed Martin and Orbital ATK have joined SpaceCom as new founding sponsors with focus on space technologies. SpaceCom said Thursday that the companies will sponsor the a SpaceCom conference set to take place from Nov. 17 through 19 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. Richard Jackson, director of NASA programs at […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Help UAE Start Space Technology Academic Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Help UAE Start Space Technology Academic Program

    Orbital ATK will collaborate with the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, satellite communications firm Yahsat and the United Arab Emirates Space Agency to form a new academic program focused on space technology. Masdar Institute will start to accept graduate students in UAE for the master’s degree program by January 2016 under the memorandum of understanding, Orbital ATK said Tuesday. […] More