Two new Boeing-made solar arrays have been installed by astronauts outside the International Space Station to provide power for the orbiting laboratory. The company said Monday the new arrays generate twice the energy than those produced by the original ones, and feature solar cells built by Spectrolab and a Redwire-developed roll-out structure for enabling movement […] More

SpaceX has launched a Dragon resupply spacecraft with over 7,300 pounds of new solar arrays, research materials and various supplies en route to the International Space Station. The spacecraft, which marks NASA’s 22nd SpaceX resupply mission, carries the new ISS Roll-out Solar Arrays and scientific investigations on topics including microgravity, cotton production, ultrasounds and virtual […] More

Redwire has built and supplied a pair of roll-out solar arrays to Boeing for installation on the International Space Station as part of a NASA initiative to modernize the orbiting laboratory's power system. Boeing, the prime contractor for NASA ISS operations, received two of the six iROSAs after the hardware completed the acceptance testing phase, Redwire said Thursday.

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Sumeet Shrivastava, president and CEO of Array Information Technology, has been named a founding member of a George Mason University council tasked with guiding and promoting the school's innovation initiative.

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The Office of Naval Research has received an experimental phased-array radar system designed by Raytheon Technologies' missile and defense business to carry out electronic warfare, communications and surveillance missions.

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Boeing will provide six more solar arrays for the International Space Station under a sustainment contract modification with NASA. The company said Monday it will deliver the arrays to boost ISS's power supply with over 120 kilowatts of solar electricity that will be used to power its systems and equipment and support public and private experiments and research in the station.

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A Raytheon Technologies business unit has secured a $12.7M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop phased array antenna technology using a “building blocks“ approach for the second phase of DARPA's Millimeter-Wave Digital Arrays program. “Millimeter-wave is less crowded than other parts of the RF spectrum on the battlefield, but current hardware is complex, tailored to a specific task and not interoperable,“ said Tay Fitzgerald, vice president for advanced concepts and technology at Raytheon Intelligence & Space.

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Array Information Technology and Fairfax, Virginia-based IT consulting firm Chainbridge Solutions have formed a joint venture that will focus on full-scope modernization and application support services.

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Ball Aerospace has won a potential $7.7M contract from the U.S. Air Force to explore methods for analyzing the characteristics of infrared-based focal plane array technology and related devices.

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David Joslin, a professional with more than three decades of commercial and federal leadership experience, has joined information technology firm Array as senior vice president and chief growth officer.

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Kyna McCall-Paster, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has joined Array as a client executive.

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Hafidh Ghalib, lead of Array's geophysical and geotechnical research and development and knowledge data center programs, has been elevated to the position of senior vice president at the firm's advanced technology division.

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