ITT Exelis announced it has been awarded an additional $3.2 million for the production of satellite-based precipitation measuring sensors. The additional award brings the total contract value to $50 million. The sensors are for the Global Precipitation Measurement program. The program uses a network of satellites to measure precipitation and produce data on the Earth’s water and [...]
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has delivered two phased array antenna engineering development units for the Orion multi-purpose crew vehicle to prime contractor Lockheed Martin. The Orion PAA design leverages three dozen Ball Aerospace phased array designs delivered for space, airborne, ground and marine applications, as well as an additional 11 fixed beam array products [...]
ATK has won a $20 million contract from the Orbital Sciences Corporation to provide its solar array technology to power a logistics space vehicle being used under NASA‘s Commercial Resupply System contract. The contract calls for ATK’s UltraFlex solar arrays to power Orbital’s Cygnus spacecraft, which will incorporate a larger pressurized cargo module capable of carrying [...]
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. today announced it will work with NASA to develop a mission concept for demonstrating solar electric propulsion in space under a $600,000 study contract. Ball said the mission concept studies will identify technology gaps and look to implement technical solutions for transportation using solar electric propulsion systems. NASA will then [...]
Harris Corp. has completed a two-day preliminary design review for a synthetic aperture radar satellite payload, which is a result of a previously awarded 30-month contract with Sierra Nevada Corporation. The contract is part of NASA‘s rapid response space works and modular space vehicles program for the Defense Department‘s Operationally Responsive Space Office. The payload is designed [...]
In partnership with Space Florida, Boeing will manufacture, assemble and test its Crew Space Transportation-100 spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Boeing is working with Space Florida on agreements to use the KSC’s Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 3, which once performed space shuttle maintenance, as well as the processing control center, which [...]
The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. built satellite, NASA’s NPP, has been successfully launched into a sun-synchronous polar orbit, lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Delta II rocket early this morning. This is the first Earth-observing satellite built to measure both global climate and key weather data. Ball Aerospace built the BCP 2000 satellite bus [...]
