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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Read about new advancements in space technologies used by top defense and intelligence agencies. This section focuses on satellite communications, launch services, space exploration and geospatial intelligence.
Jacobs Engineering Group and NASA have concluded tests of a parachute system that would support re-entry activities of the Orion spacecraft. The team conducted the Capsule Parachute Assembly System‘s final qualification test at the U.S. Army‘s Yuma Proving Ground facility in Arizona, the company said Thursday. During the test, a C-17 aircraft dropped the Orion capsule from […] More
Jacobs Engineering Group has transported to a launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida a 380-foot-tall mobile launcher designed to support NASA’s Exploration Mission-1. The company said Tuesday it moved ML atop Crawler Transporter-2 toward launch pad 39B for interface fit checks and then transported the launcher back to the vehicle assembly facility on Sept. […] More
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded separate contracts to GeoOptics, Spire Global and PlanetIQ to support the second round of NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot program. The three satellite firms will supply space-based radio occultation information through July 31, 2019 to help NOAA assess the data’s potential value to its models used in weather predictions, […] More
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory a five-year, $23.8M contract to provide life cycle support for the military branch’s space assets APL will support concept development, design, implementation, transition and management of tactical space and small satellite platforms under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Air Force […] More
Boeing and SpaceX executives have said they believe their commercial space vehicles can meet NASA’s “loss-of-crew†requirement and other safety thresholds, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. John Mulholland, a vice president and program manager for the commercial crew program at Boeing, said the company has been evaluating the loss-of-mission, ascent-and-entry and loss-of-crew requirements for years and has made […] More
NASA has tapped General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business to host an aerosol pollutant measuring instrument on the company’s Orbital Test Bed-2 satellite. GA-EMS said Monday it will provide integration and pre-launch processing services for the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols instrument, which will be launched to space in 2022 to study the connection between aerosol pollutants and human […] More
A Lockheed Martin-built missile warning satellite that launched Jan. 19 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., has been declared as fully operational and ready for use at the U.S. Air Force. Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit 3 transmits data to the 460th Space Wing-operated Mission Control Station at Buckley AF Base in Colorado, the service branch said […] More
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
United Launch Alliance’s Delta II rocket made its final launch Saturday after it took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with a Northrop Grumman-built spacecraft designed to collect measurements of the Earth’s sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 transmitted signals to ground stations in Norway approximately 75 […] More
Some defense companies such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Boeing have made investments in startups that develop small satellites as the Pentagon and intelligence agencies work to counter space security threats through the use of Cubesats, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Raytheon announced a partnership with Herndon, Va.-based satellite firm HawkEye 360 on Monday, Sept. 10, […] More
KBR‘s government services arm has received a potential $48M contract to build, deploy and commission satellite laser ranging stations for a NASA project aiming to sustain a global network of space geodetic technique instruments. The agency said Friday KBRwyle will manufacture up to six stations under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract in support of the Space Geodesy Project. Work will involve completing […] More
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
