NASA has awarded Northrop Grumman a potential 10-year, $49.5M contract to manufacture long-lead items for twin rocket boosters to support additional Space Launch System missions. Read more
The Canadian space agency has indicated its intent to award MDA Inc. a contract to build a robotic system that will serve as Canada's contribution Artemis, NASA's mission to put astr... Read more
Northrop Grumman has shipped a pair of rocket boosters for NASA's Space Launch System rocket to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida from a company-run factory in Promontory, Utah. The de... Read more
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2020 — Leidos’ (NYSE: LDOS) Dynetics subsidiary is among the three contractors NASA selected to design and build platforms for a mission to land astronauts on the... Read more
NASA has certified Lockheed Martin’s Orion spacecraft ahead of its uncrewed flight in lunar orbit as part of the Artemis I mission. Read more
Firefly Aerospace plans to move forward with the development of its Genesis lunar lander as its continues work on an orbital transfer vehicle in partnership with Aerojet Rocketdyne, ARS Tech... Read more
An Aerojet Rocketdyne study has found that using liquid hydrogen for propulsion systems supporting the lunar lander could pose risks because currently available cryogenic fluid management ca... Read more
Maxar Technologies has received a $5M contract from NASA to build and deliver a robotic arm that will work to gather sample materials from the Moon’s surface as part of the agency’s Artemis... Read more
Lockheed Martin has recognized Cobham’s advanced electronic solutions business as a supplier of cables and other radio frequency interconnect platforms in support of development work on NASA... Read more
Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s space business and a four-time Wash100 award recipient, told Yahoo Finance in a video posted Tuesday about the manned mission to t... Read more
Honeywell has secured a contract to help Lockheed Martin produce a fleet of Orion spacecraft for NASA’s space exploration missions. Read more
Lockheed Martin has awarded Collins Aerospace a $320M contract to supply subsystems for the Orion spacecraft that NASA will use for future Artemis missions aimed at establishing sustained hu... Read more
Chris Shank, vice president for civil and national security space at Maxar Technologies, said the company is preparing for the future of space exploration and Earth observation imagery to as... Read more
Tony Frazier, executive vice president for global field operations at Maxar Technologies and a 2019 Wash100 Award recipient, said the company seeks to continue applying emerging technology t... Read more
NASA Awards $51M in R&D Funding to 312 Small Businesses
NASA has earmarked $51M in funding to support 312 companies’ Phase I technology development activities as part of the agency’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technolog... Read more