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  • NASA, BoldlyGo Sign Agreement to Study Potential Habitable Exoplanets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, BoldlyGo Sign Agreement to Study Potential Habitable Exoplanets

    NASA and the BoldlyGo Institute have entered into a Space Act Agreement to build and deploy a purpose-built space telescope to determine potentially habitable planets in the Alpha Centauri system. BoldlyGo said Tuesday the public-private collaboration seeks to open up opportunities for NASA personnel and staff members of the Project Blue mission to review mission designs […] More

  • NASA Taps Northrop Subsidiary to Provide Optics Tech for Future Space Observatory - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Northrop Subsidiary to Provide Optics Tech for Future Space Observatory

    A Northrop Grumman subsidiary has received a contract from NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop an optical technology platform for integration with an infrared space observatory. Northrop said Monday Adaptive Optics Associates will design and produce an adaptive optics tool for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope designed to capture images of exoplanets throughout the platform’s mission. AOX will integrate adaptive […] More

  • Lockheed Starts Optical Payload Development for NASA's Dark Energy Research Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Starts Optical Payload Development for NASA’s Dark Energy Research Programs

    Lockheed Martin has started develop an optical payload that could support NASA‘s research on a mysterious force called dark energy which causes the universe to expand. Lockheed said Thursday NASA selected the company’s Palo Alto, California-based Advanced Technology Center to start the formulation phase of the Wide-Field Optical-Mechanical Assembly. NASA could choose WOMA to serve as the core of the primary […] More

  • NASA Seeks Industry Info on Wide Field Imaging Telescope Data Recorder - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks Industry Info on Wide Field Imaging Telescope Data Recorder

    NASA wants industry information on a solid state data recorder to support a conceptual design of the agency’s future wide field imaging observatory platform. A notice posted Monday on FedBizOpps stated the data recorder will become a component of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope‘s payload command and data handling subsystem. The recorder will work to store science data packets […] More

  • UMass Lowell Completes PICTURE-B Exoplanet Research Mission Using Northrop-Built Mirror - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UMass Lowell Completes PICTURE-B Exoplanet Research Mission Using Northrop-Built Mirror

    The University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology has concluded its Planet Imaging Coronagraphic Technology Using a Reconfigurable Experimental Base exoplanet research mission following its return from space. PICTURE-B features a 22-inch-diameter silicon carbide primary mirror built by Northrop Grumman‘s AOA Xinetics subsidiary, Northrop said Tuesday. The mirror worked to support PICTURE-B’s mission to observe the Rigel […] More