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  • 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

  • NASA-Brazilian Research Team Plans CubeSat Mission to Study Ionosphere Phenomena - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA-Brazilian Research Team Plans CubeSat Mission to Study Ionosphere Phenomena

    NASA will collaborate with a team of space researchers in Brazil to conduct a joint CubeSat mission as part of efforts to study phenomena that occur within the Earth’s upper atmosphere. The Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task mission aims to observe the equatorial plasma bubbles and scintillation in the ionosphere that affect radio communications, satellite technologies […] 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

  • Bob Genter: SAIC to Support NASA Goddard's Applied Engineering Work Under $620M IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bob Genter: SAIC to Support NASA Goddard’s Applied Engineering Work Under $620M IDIQ

    Bob Genter, senior vice president and general manager of the federal civilian customer group at Science Applications International Corp., has said the company will support current and future applied engineering technology programs at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center under a potential five-year, $620 million contract. The company will also carry out support for the components, subsystems, systems and instruments of […] More

  • SES Completes UV Imaging Payload Integration on Communications Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES Completes UV Imaging Payload Integration on Communications Satellite

    SES has integrated a NASA instrument payload equipped with an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph onto the company’s SES-14 geostationary communications satellite. The Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk instrument’s spectrograph is designed to measure temperatures and densities in the Earth’s ionosphere and thermosphere to investigate ionospheric disruptions to navigation and communication transmissions, SES said Tuesday. SES-14 is built to provide C– […] More

  • NVI Awarded Follow-On NASA Baseline Interferometry Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NVI Awarded Follow-On NASA Baseline Interferometry Support Contract

    NVI has secured a five-year, $12 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to continue support work on NASA‘s very long baseline interferometry. NASA said Thursday that NVI will coordinate and examine VLBI observations as well as support the development, documentation, implementation and maintenance of related software under the follow-on contract. The company will also assist NASA in operation of the geophysical and astronomical observatory at the […] More

  • Orbital ATK Completes 17-Year Support for NASA Earth Observation Satellite; Frank Culbertson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Completes 17-Year Support for NASA Earth Observation Satellite; Frank Culbertson Comments

    Orbital ATK has concluded its support services for an Earth observation satellite the company built for NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center to aid the validation and development of satellite and instrument technologies. The company said Thursday NASA has decommissioned the Earth Observing-1 satellite  after a nearly 17-year mission that began in 2000. Orbital ATK supported the EO-1 mission as […] More

  • Parsons to Provide Engineering, Technical Services at NASA Goddard; Carey Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons to Provide Engineering, Technical Services at NASA Goddard; Carey Smith Comments

    Parsons has secured a potential five-year contract from NASA to provide a range of engineering and technical services to the Goddard Space Flight Center. The company said Wednesday the Facilities Construction, Engineering and Technical Services III contract covers engineering, construction, design-build, information technology and program management services. “We are honored to be awarded this contract and continue our relationship […] More

  • NASA-Backed Mission Aims to Shed Light on Interstellar Medium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA-Backed Mission Aims to Shed Light on Interstellar Medium

    NASA has picked a potential $40 million science mission that aims to measure emissions from the cosmic material – interstellar medium – that can be found among stars in order to generate data for use in research into the Milky Way galaxy. The Galactic/Extragalactic [Ultralong-Duration Balloon] Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory mission seeks to offer a “complete […] More

  • SSL-Managed MDA Division Gets NASA Recognition for ISS Robotic Servicing Support; Rich White Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL-Managed MDA Division Gets NASA Recognition for ISS Robotic Servicing Support; Rich White Comments

    A Space Systems Loral-managed division of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates has received recognition from NASA for its support on a January robotic servicing mission at the International Space Station. SSL said Wednesday the Johnson Space Center acknowledged the support of MDA US Systems in planning and validating the maneuvers to update the ISS power system using the Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator robotic arm. Rich White, […] More