Germany's space agency will use a Lockheed Martin-made command and control system to track over 300,000 objects in Earth's orbit to provide situational awareness. The company said Tuesday its iSpace system gathers data from surveillance sensors of multiple, global sources, including government, commercial and scientific community, to monitor orbiting objects.
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Lunar Outpost, Masten Space Systems and ispace's Europe and Japan businesses have received contracts totaling $25K to obtain rock samples on the lunar surface as part of a NASA program to support deep-space missions.
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Charles Stark Draper Laboratory is developing technologies designed to support NASA's robotic and manned missions to the moon by 2024, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
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Some industry executives have said that NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program has provided companies an opportunity to advance their technology platforms and form partnerships with additional firms, SpaceNews reported Thursday. “Going back to the moon with commercial technology opens the floodgates,“ said Grant Anderson, president, CEO and co-founder of …
Read More » Draper has teamed up with three other companies to bid for a project to build small exploration vehicles and scientific instruments to help NASA explore the moon's surface. Cambridge, Mass.-based Draper said Tuesday it will lead an industry team composed of General Atomics' electromagnetic systems group, ispace and Spaceflight Industries to pursue the space agency’s Commercial Lunar …
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The Australian government has selected Lockheed Martin to provide a technology platform designed to help users gain situational awareness of space events. Lockheed said Tuesday it will deploy the iSpace Mission System at the Australian Space Operations Center to collect data from government, commercial and science community sensors. The system works to integrate surveillance data and …
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Lockheed Martin has unveiled an analytics platform the company designed to help public and private sector customers protect their space assets. The intelligent Space offering encompasses sensor data processing, space domain awareness, battle management and command-and-control support for defense, civil, commercial and international clients, Lockheed said Tuesday. The company designed iSpace to task, process and correlate data from …
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