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  • NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab Releases Asteroid Redirect Mission Spacecraft RFP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Releases Asteroid Redirect Mission Spacecraft RFP

    NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has released a request for proposals in search of potential industry partners to design, develop and build robotic spacecraft to capture a multi-ton asteroid boulder. NASA said in Sept. 21  it plans to award an ARM spacecraft build-and-delivery contract in 2017 as part of the space agency’s Asteroid Redirect Mission and will accept responses to […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Supply Satellite Propellant Tanks to Space Systems/Loral; Dave Shanahan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Supply Satellite Propellant Tanks to Space Systems/Loral; Dave Shanahan Comments

    Orbital ATK has received a five-year contract from a subsidiary of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to produce and supply flight sets of titanium propellant tanks for integration with a commercial communications satellite. Orbital ATK’s space components division in California will manufacture flight sets comprised of two liquid propellant tanks for Space Systems/Loral’s SSL 1300 satellites, Orbital […] More

  • MDA Subsidiary an Industrial Partner on Potential NASA Discovery Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Subsidiary an Industrial Partner on Potential NASA Discovery Mission

    A subsidiary of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates will support the research efforts of NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other institutions on the asteroid Psyche as an industrial partner on a potential Discovery mission. MDA said Thursday Space Systems/Loral will participate in work on concept design studies with Lindy Elkins-Tanton, principal investigator on the project and director of Arizona State University’s School […] More

  • Space Systems/Loral Awarded DARPA Robotic Satellite Assembly Research Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Systems/Loral Awarded DARPA Robotic Satellite Assembly Research Contract

    A subsidiary of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates will investigate ideas on how to robotically assemble communication satellites while in orbit under a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. MDA said Wednesday Space Systems/Loral will carry out the study for five months under the initial phase of DARPA’s Dragonfly program, which seeks to launch larger geostationary […] More

  • Space Systems/Loral Launches New Satellite for Intelsat; John Celli Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Systems/Loral Launches New Satellite for Intelsat; John Celli Comments

    Space Systems/Loral has launched a new satellite built for Intelsat into space for an initiative to provide distribution services in South America and the Caribbean regions. The Intelsat 30 satellite also achieved post-launch maneuvering in orbit after its launch on board Ariane 5 from the European Spaceport in the French Guiana, SSL said Friday. SSL designed the Intelsat 30 based on the 1300 platform to […] More