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  • NASA to Ship Webb Telescope to Northrop Facility for Spacecraft Tech Integration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Ship Webb Telescope to Northrop Facility for Spacecraft Tech Integration

    NASA engineers have removed the James Webb Space Telescope from the space agency’s thermal vacuum testing platform installed at the Johnson Space Center following completion of a 100-day cryogenic test. The agency said Saturday it tested JWST’s optical structure and scientific instruments at Chamber A to determine if the future space observatory could function in a simulated space environment. NASA […] 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

  • Northrop Integrates Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Layers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Integrates Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Layers

    Northrop Grumman has integrated the last defense layers of a sun shield system built to protect optics and instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope from heat. The company said Monday its aerospace systems business designed the sun shield layers that will work to help reduce the temperatures between cold and hot JWST components. Huntsville, Alabama-based NeXolve manufactured the […] 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

  • NASA to Fund 9 Studies on Sun, Space Environment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Fund 9 Studies on Sun, Space Environment

    NASA has chosen nine research proposals from government, industry and academic institutions that seek to study the sun and space environment. The agency said Friday proposals under the Explorers Program include five Heliophysics Small Explorer missions that will receive $1.25 million each to conduct an 11-month concept study as well as two Explorer Missions of Opportunity Small Complete […] More

  • Northrop Conducts STEM Outreach Efforts Via UK Screening of James Webb Space Telescope Documentary - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Conducts STEM Outreach Efforts Via UK Screening of James Webb Space Telescope Documentary

    Northrop Grumman has screened in the U.K. a documentary film on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope as part of the company’s efforts to encourage students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. The film Into the Unknown focuses on the development of the space telescope designed to launch in late 2018 to gather information […] More

  • Northrop Receives Astro Aerospace-Built Boom Assemblies for NASA’s Webb Telescope - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Receives Astro Aerospace-Built Boom Assemblies for NASA’s Webb Telescope

    Northrop Grumman has received the mid-boom assemblies from its Astro Aerospace subsidiary for integration with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Astro Aerospace designed and built two boom assemblies designed to deploy the telescope’s sunshield component once in orbit, Northrop said Monday. Astro Aerospace delivered the assemblies to Northrop’s Redondo Beach, California-based facility after it completed […] More