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  • KBR's Government Business to Help NASA Build Satellite Ranging Stations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR’s Government Business to Help NASA Build Satellite Ranging Stations

    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 Plans to Transfer Satellite Servicing Technologies to Commercial Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Plans to Transfer Satellite Servicing Technologies to Commercial Sector

    NASA will host an industry day at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. on Dec. 6 to present technologies from the agency’s satellite servicing projects division. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the SSPD event, which is the third that NASA announced for this year, is part of its efforts to help private sector organizations commercialize […] More

  • Report: NASA Integrates Satellite for Ice Monitoring Mission With Delta 2 Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: NASA Integrates Satellite for Ice Monitoring Mission With Delta 2 Rocket

    NASA has installed atop United Launch Alliance’s Delta 2 rocket a Northrop Grumman-built spacecraft designed to track changes in the Earth’s ground and sea ice, Spaceflight Now reported Tuesday. The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite 2 is slated to take off Sept. 15 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as part of the final flight of […] 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

  • NASA Starts Commissioning Tests for Northrop-Built Planet Hunter Satellite After SpaceX Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Starts Commissioning Tests for Northrop-Built Planet Hunter Satellite After SpaceX Launch

    NASA has commenced the in-space commissioning test and adjustment period for a planet identification satellite in preparation for the start of space endeavors by the end of July. The agency started tests on the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to make sure that it is functioning properly and to determine if modifications to it would be […] More

  • NASA, Johns Hopkins APL Complete Solar Probe Integration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Johns Hopkins APL Complete Solar Probe Integration

    The team of NASA and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has fully integrated a spacecraft that is scheduled to launch in August on a mission to study the sun up close. NASA said Thursday an eight-foot-diameter heat shield was reinstalled on Parker Solar Probe last week after engineers initially attached the system to the spacecraft as part of tests […] More

  • NASA Solar Probe to Launch Aboard ULA Heavy Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Solar Probe to Launch Aboard ULA Heavy Rocket

    A NASA spacecraft designed to gather information about the sun is scheduled to take off no earlier than Aug. 4 aboard the United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Parker Solar Probe will determine how heat and energy move through the sun’s atmosphere by flying directly […] More

  • Jacobs to Help Maintain NASA Goddard Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs to Help Maintain NASA Goddard Facility

    Jacobs Engineering Group will collaborate with Akima Support Operations to help maintain facilities at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center as part of a potential  $131.7 million contract. Jacobs said Wednesday it will serve as Akima’s strategic contract partner to support GSFC’s Facilities Operations and Maintenance Division. NASA awarded the five-year Facilities Operations and Maintenance Services III contract in February. Under […] More

  • Ball Aerospace to Produce Optical Instrument for NASA's Infrared Space Observatory - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace to Produce Optical Instrument for NASA’s Infrared Space Observatory

    NASA has selected Ball Aerospace to produce an optical technology for a new space observatory designed to help scientists conduct research into dark energy, exoplanets and infrared astrophysics. The company said Wednesday it will build the Optical Mechanical Assembly for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope and support WFI integration and test efforts. Jim Oschmann, vice president and general manager […] More

  • NASA Taps Alutiiq to Provide Security Services Under $76M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Alutiiq to Provide Security Services Under $76M Contract

    Alaska-based Alutiiq‘s Advance Security Solutions business has received a potential $75.9 million contract to provide physical security services for multiple NASA sites. The company will work to secure Goddard Space Flight Center, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Wallops Flight Facility and the Independent Verification and Validation Facility, the space agency said Wednesday. The contract has a base of $18.1 million, with $15 million covering the […] More

  • Manhattan Construction to Build Instrument Developent Facility for NASA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Manhattan Construction to Build Instrument Developent Facility for NASA

    Manhattan Construction has received a potential $31.1 million contract to build an instrument development facility at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. NASA said Saturday the company will construct a 54,200-square-foot multistory building to house Science and Exploration Directorate and the Planetary Environments Laboratory. The agency expects the facility to obtain the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership […] More

  • SpaceX Launches Orbital ATK-Made 'TESS' Spacecraft for NASA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Launches Orbital ATK-Made ‘TESS’ Spacecraft for NASA

    A satellite that Orbital ATK built for NASA’s Astrophysics Explorer mission lifted off Wednesday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is designed to identify planets nearby host stars to facilitate characterizations of those planets and their atmospheres through the use of four wide-field cameras, […] More