Honeywell to Supply Software, Hardware for Lockheed’s Orion Spacecraft
Honeywell has secured a contract to help Lockheed Martin produce a fleet of Orion spacecraft for NASA’s space exploration missions.
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Honeywell has secured a contract to help Lockheed Martin produce a fleet of Orion spacecraft for NASA’s space exploration missions.
NASA has unveiled to the media the rover unit that will be fielded for the agency’s Mars exploration mission in 2020.
Tim Cole, program manager for the power and propulsion element at Maxar Technologies, said in an interview published Monday that the company wrapped up the two-day systems requirements review of the PPE at its Palo Alto, Calif.-based facility to assess and document the platform’s technical requirements.
Rocket Lab has completed and installed a new launch platform at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport for launches of the Electron vehicle.
Lockheed Martin and NASA completed the final static test for a heat shield intended to protect the Mars 2020Â rover from extreme thermal conditions on its mission toward the red planet.
Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin's space business and a 2019 Wash100 winner, said in a video interview aired Tuesday he predicts NASA will send humans back to the moon via a lunar gateway within the next decade.
BAE Systems recently revealed that NASA had equipped its InSight spacecraft, which landed on Mars in November last year, with BAE's radiation-hardened RAD750 single board computers. Jim LaRosa, the company's director for Space Processor and Products, said that the RAD750s "commanded a series of critical maneuvers" as InSight descended onto the Martian surface.
SpaceX has started preparations for the uncrewed test flight of its new Crew Dragon spacecraft scheduled for mid-January, Space.com reported Sunday. The company in the past week transferred the spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket to Launch Pad 39A at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX hopes to launch Crew Dragon on Jan. 17 under the […] More
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
Airbus has awarded Maxar Technologies‘ MDA business a contract to design subsystems for a rover NASA and the European Space Agency plan to use in a joint mission to collect and return samples from Mars to Earth. MDA will aim to develop mobility and sample acquisition systems for potential integration into a “Sample Fetch Rover” that would support […] More
NASA‘s Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, exploration spacecraft has landed on Mars with the support of Northrop Grumman-made technologies. The company said Monday it built InSight’s cruise stage and instrument heat pipes, lander diaphragm tanks and solar array assembly at facilities in Maryland and California. Northrop also manufactured a […] More
Aerojet Rocketdyne has built the propulsion devices that powered a NASA spacecraft during a journey to Mars as part of a mission to study the planet’s seismology, rotation and internal temperature. InSight, which landed Monday on the Martian surface, used MR-107N 50 engines, an RL10C-1 main engine, MR-106 reaction control thrusters and MR-111C thrusters in its nearly six-month trip […] More
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