Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance and a previous Wash100 awardee, said the U.S. government should consider producing fuel in space to stimulate the development of the space economy, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.
Read More »NASA Issues Statement on Maxar’s Selection for Lunar ‘Gateway’ Propulsion Dev’t Contract
A source selection statement issued by NASA Thursday shows that price and contract terms were the factors that helped Maxar Technologies win a $375M contract to build and demonstrate a power and propulsion element for the agency’s proposed lunar Gateway space station, SpaceNews reported Friday.
Read More »ULA’s Tory Bruno: Space Industrial Base Stability Needed for Mars Exploration Missions
Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, has told a Senate subcommittee that planned exploration missions to Mars demand a “space industrial base of enormous breadth and depth.” Bruno said in a testimony published Wednesday that ULA has formed strategic partnerships with Aerojet Rocketdyne, L3 Technologies, Spincraft and other companies …
Read More »Boeing Launches Deep Space Habitat, Transport Concepts for Manned Lunar, Mars Missions
Boeing has introduced concepts for its deep space habitat and transport platforms designed to help NASA advance manned exploration missions to the moon and Mars. The company said Monday the proposed habitat called Deep Space Gateway would fly aboard the Space Launch System to facilitate scientific research in cislunar space and help open …
Read More »Frank Culbertson: Orbital ATK Aims to Place Manned Habitat in Cislunar Space by 2020
An Orbital ATK executive has said the company plans to use its Cygnus spacecraft as a basis for a manned habitat that would operate in cislunar space by 2020. Orbital ATK said Wednesday Frank Culbertson, president of space systems group at Orbital ATK, told the House Science subcommittee on space that the initial habitat …
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