Tag Archives: Glenn Research Center

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has incorporated a propulsion technology built by NASA into a spacecraft designed to support the agency's demonstration of its first planetary defense capability.

The Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at an Ohio-based NASA remote testing facility Tuesday to undergo a series of space environment simulation tests. Lockheed, Airbus and the U.S. and European space agencies will collaborate on the two-phase testing effort.

Janet Kavandi, a 25-year veteran of NASA and former director of the agency's Glenn Research Center, has been appointed senior vice president for the space systems business area at Sierra Nevada Corp. She will oversee the area's space technologies and spacecraft, space exploration systems and propulsion and environmental systems units, SNC said Monday.

NASA's Glenn Research Center seeks market information regarding facility construction efforts at Lewis Field and Plum Brook Station facilities. Contractors would provide architectural, civil, structural, mechanical, plumbing, heat ventilation, air conditioning, electrical, instrumentation and demolition services at the facilities located in Cleveland and Sandusky, Ohio, NASA said Monday in a FedBizOpps notice.

The Airbus-built service module for NASA’s uncrewed Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft has arrived at Kennedy Space Center to undergo a series of tests and integration work in preparation for the Exploration Mission-1 program. NASA said Tuesday its engineers will assess the service module’s elements, connect fluid lines for gases, and fuel and …

Walsh Construction Company II has received a potential two-year, $32.7 million contract to build a research support building at NASA‘s Glenn Research Center. The company will construct a two-story, 64,000-square-foot facility designed to accommodate up to 164 employees and feature open offices, private offices, conference and engineering rooms, engineering rooms …

Janet Kavandi, director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center, has said a SpaceX-built spacecraft has left the agency’s Ohio-based Plum Brook Station for Florida following the completion of a series of acoustics and thermal vacuum tests, SpaceNews reported Monday. Kavandi issued the statement Monday at the American Institute of Aeronautics and …

Leidos has received a potential five-year, $35.3 million contract to provide operational safety, occupational health, mission assurance services at NASA‘s Glenn Research Center. The company will also help manage the center’s safety and mission assurance directorate manage aeronautics and space flight systems and ground support equipment programs. NASA said Wednesday. The …

Firelake-Arrowhead NASA Services has secured a potential $52.4 million contract to help manage facilities and construction projects for the space agency’s Glenn Research Center. The Construction, Maintenance, Environmental and Testing Services contract has an 18-month base period, a two-year option and an additional 18-month option, NASA said Saturday. The company will …

NASA looks to use cognitive radios to meet increased demand for space data and optimize the efficiency of space communications systems. The agency said Saturday software-defined radios such as cognitive radios apply artificial intelligence to utilize unused but licensed portions of the electromagnetic spectrum without human intervention. Cognitive radios could also address communications …

Lockheed Martin and Spike Aerospace are among the companies that submitted proposals to NASA in September to build a full-scale demonstrator of a supersonic passenger jet, Popular Mechanics reported Monday. The bids come as NASA works to complete wind-tunnel tests on a 15-percent-scale model of the Quiet Supersonic Technology X-plane at …

NASA has started to perform wind-tunnel tests on a small-scale model of a supersonic passenger jet at the space agency’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, the Daily Press reported Thursday. Langley researchers have begun to subject the 15-percent-scale model of the Quiet Supersonic Technology X-plane to slower wind speeds at Langley’s …

NASA has awarded Golden Svcs a potential five-year, $33.4 million contract to help secure two facilities managed by the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio. The company will support emergency and badge management, physical security and personnel security, medical first response, traffic and gate control, security incident and dispatch and patrol operations at GRC’s …

Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed a series of hot-fire tests on a power processing unit for an electric propulsion system that the company currently developed for NASA. The company said Thursday it tested the Advanced Electric Propulsion System‘s power processing unit at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, together with the agency’s technology development unit …

NASA and Lockheed Martin have concluded the preliminary design review of an experimental supersonic transport aircraft. The review sought to show the Quiet Supersonic Transport X-plane’s capability to meet the mission goals for a Low Boom Flight Demonstration aircraft, NASA said Tuesday. Lockheed and the agency will continue to conduct wind tunnel …