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  • NASA Moves Webb Telescope Launch to May 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Moves Webb Telescope Launch to May 2020

    NASA has pushed back from 2019 to May 2020 the launch of its James Webb Space Telescope to give the program’s engineers more time to test and integrate the telescope and spacecraft components. “All the observatory’s flight hardware is now complete, however, the issues brought to light with the spacecraft element are prompting us to take […] More

  • Inmarsat to Develop 4D Air Traffic Management SATCOM Service for ESA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat to Develop 4D Air Traffic Management SATCOM Service for ESA

    Inmarsat has received a European Space Agency contract to develop satellite communication technologies that provide 4D trajectory air traffic management. The Iris program entails technologies that will be used to support European airspace traffic management beginning 2020, the company said Tuesday. Developed technologies will compose the Iris system that will make use of Inmarsat’s SB-S platform for increased internet protocol-based […] More

  • European Space Agency Picks 5 Firms to Conduct Satellite Microlauncher Feasibility Studies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    European Space Agency Picks 5 Firms to Conduct Satellite Microlauncher Feasibility Studies

    The European Space Agency has selected five companies to study the feasibility of using a commercial microlauncher to deploy small satellites into orbit. ArianeGroup, MT-Aerospace, ELV, Deimos and PLD Space will conduct research on their proposed concepts, ESA said Thursday. France-based ArianeGroup, a joint venture of Airbus and Safran, proposed to develop the three-stage Quick Access to Space vehicle […] More

  • NASA Ships Webb Telescope's OTIS Instrument Module to Northrop Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Ships Webb Telescope’s OTIS Instrument Module to Northrop Facility

    An instrument module of NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope arrived at Northrop Grumman‘s Redondo Beach, California-based facility Friday ahead of scheduled tests. NASA shipped the combined Optical Telescope and Integrated Science instrument module from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, after the agency completed cryogenic tests on the hardware, Northrop said Monday. OTIS was encased in a […] More

  • ESA Names Airbus Prime Contractor for European Satellite-Based Augmentation System Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ESA Names Airbus Prime Contractor for European Satellite-Based Augmentation System Devt

    The European Space Agency has selected Airbus to be the prime contractor on a project to build a new satellite-based augmentation system that can support “safety of life” and other services across the aviation sector. Airbus said Friday it will help the agency produce EGNOS V3 in efforts to boost the performance of European SoL services to […] More

  • SES-Led Consortium, European Space Agency Form Govt Satcom Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES-Led Consortium, European Space Agency Form Govt Satcom Partnership

    An SES-led industry consortium has partnered with the European Space Agency to establish a platform for government organizations to access and secure satellite communications. The public-private partnership aims to demonstrate potential applications of the Pacis-1 satcom platform to border control, civil protection, humanitarian missions and maritime surveillance missions, SES said Tuesday. The Pacis-1 project also seeks to […] More

  • ArianeGroup Taps Thales to Produce Telemetry Transmitter for ESA Launch Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ArianeGroup Taps Thales to Produce Telemetry Transmitter for ESA Launch Vehicle

    Thales has inked an agreement with ArianeGroup to help design, develop, qualify and produce a telemetry transmitter for a European Space Agency-approved launcher. Thales said Tuesday the Ariane 6 telemetry transmitter will relay launcher-generated data to servers on the ground throughout the entire launch mission. “This contract shows our company’s ability to adapt to a […] More

  • KBR Business Segment to Provide Medical Support for ESA Astronauts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR Business Segment to Provide Medical Support for ESA Astronauts

    KBR‘s global government services business will provide medical support to the European Space Agency office in charge of health certifications to clear astronauts for flight. KBRwyle will furnish services including flight medical operations, healthcare administration, biomedical engineering and sport science to the European Astronaut Center Space Medicine Office in Cologne, Germany, through a contract with Vitrociset […] More

  • ESA Taps Leonardo to Study Data Security Mgmt for European Navigation Satellite System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ESA Taps Leonardo to Study Data Security Mgmt for European Navigation Satellite System

    The European Space Agency has selected Leonardo to study ways to manage the cybersecurity of a European navigation satellite system. Leonardo said Wednesday it will create a benchmark architecture and establish requirements and processes for the information security management of the Galileo satellite program. The company aims to help the ESA build a security monitoring system for […] More

  • Thales to Help ESA Design Payload Module for Link Explorer Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales to Help ESA Design Payload Module for Link Explorer Mission

    Thales Alenia Space has inked a contract with the European Space Agency to help design the payload module for a joint science mission between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The module for the Solar Wind Magnetospheric Ionospheric Link Explorer (SMILE) will host customer furnished science instruments from China, Canada and the U.K., Thales said Monday. […] More

  • Airbus to Provide Demonstrator for Gov't Satcom Pooling Project in Europe - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus to Provide Demonstrator for Gov’t Satcom Pooling Project in Europe

    Airbus has received a contract from the European Space Agency to provide a service demonstrator for the Governmental Satellite Communications program that aims to update satellite communications capability in Europe. The two-year contract consists of a first phase that entails the production of a ground system that can facilitate the sharing of satellite functions as well […] More

  • Serco Lands Potential $78M Contract for ESA Scientific, Engineering Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Serco Lands Potential $78M Contract for ESA Scientific, Engineering Services

    Serco has won a potential five-year, $78.1 million “framework” contract to provide specialist scientific and engineering services to the European Space Agency. The company said Tuesday it will deploy skilled personnel to support ESA in 16 focus areas that include business management, data analysis, engineering, electromagnetics, information technology, navigation, optics, product assurance, robotics, space science and […] More