Honeybee Robotics, a research, development and manufacturing engineering company, has landed a $17.7 million contract to support NASA’s construction of the Mars Sample Return Capture, Containment and Retrieval System. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Honeybee will provide manpower, services, equipment and facilities for the CCRS Earth Entry System and its component, the Spin Eject Mechanism, the […] More

NASA has selected Honeybee Robotics and mPower Technology to jointly design a space solar power system in support of the space agency’s Vertical Solar Array Technology initiative aimed at helping enable long-term lunar surface operations. Altadena, California-based Honeybee Robotics and Albuquerque, New Mexico-headquartered mPower will work on the Lunar Array Mast and Power System concept […] More

Executive Mosaic is excited to announce that NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has received a 2024 Wash100 Award for his commitment to empowering cooperative scientific exploration and technological progress through various agency missions. The esteemed Wash100 Award has honored the most influential leaders in the government contracting industry for 11 years.

The Wash100 popular vote contest is in full swing! Click here to cast your vote for Nelson as your favorite 2024 winner.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected 14 companies for a seven-month capability study that seeks to develop technology concepts to advance an integrated, multiservice commercial lunar infrastructure. Under the 10-Year Lunar Architecture Capability Study, the companies will collaborate to design systems-level platforms spanning multiple lunar services, including lunar power; communications, navigation and timing; mining and commercial in-situ resource utilization; construction and robotics; and transit, mobility and logistics, DARPA said Tuesday.

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NASA will invest $5.5 million in nine projects that will test space technologies with suborbital rocket-powered systems, high-altitude balloons and parabolic aircraft. The space agency said Friday its 2021 TechFlights solicitation will fund technology demonstrations in space-like scenarios without having to launch them into orbit. NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate selected the technologies through the […] More

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland has selected Altius Space Machines, Honeybee Robotics and Orbit Fab to provide robotic grapple fixtures for a testing initiative slated to begin in the spring and summer of 2021. Engineers at NASA’s Exploration and In-Space Services projects division will evaluate the companies’ grapple fixtures using robotics facilities at Goddard under space act agreements.

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NASA will launch 12 science and technology payloads in an effort to study more of the Moon’s surface as the agency prepares for more lunar trips by 2024.

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Some industry executives have said that NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program has provided companies an opportunity to advance their technology platforms and form partnerships with additional firms, SpaceNews reported Thursday. “Going back to the moon with commercial technology opens the floodgates,” said Grant Anderson, president, CEO and co-founder of Paragon Space Development, which teams […] More

NASA has chosen 10 companies to build platforms designed to gather, process and utilize space-based resources for lunar and Mars missions. The agency said Friday the companies will receive contracts worth approximately $10 million combined to perform work across three tracks as part of Appendix D of the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 program. […] More