Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space business has worked with NASA to develop a cloud-based platform meant to help the agency distribute and archive data from the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich climate monitoring satellite. “The data storage challenge becomes that much greater with the petabytes upon petabytes of data that satellites generate every day," said David Appel, vice president of defense and civil solutions at Raytheon Intelligence and Space.
Read More »Mercury Systems to Supply Data Recorders for NASA’s Research Mission on Mineral Dust
NASA has selected Mercury Systems to provide solid-state data recorders to support mineralogy research missions aimed at assessing the impact of mineral dust on the Earth's temperature.
Read More »Teresa Carlson: AWS Cloud Platform Supports NASA’s Mars Data Collection
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is using Amazon Web Services' cloud computing technology to process and host data from the Perseverance rover, which touched down Thursday on Mars to survey the red planet.
Read More »General Atomics Taps Firefly Aerospace to Launch NASA Payload for Aerosols Study Mission
General Atomics' electromagnetic systems business has selected Firefly Aerospace to perform launch services for a GA-EMS satellite carrying an instrument that NASA will use to study how aerosols in the atmosphere affect human health. Firefly will use its Alpha rocket to launch the Orbital Test Bed satellite, equipped with the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols instrument, in 2022 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, General Atomics said Thursday.
Read More »Clinton Crosier: Companies, Agencies Use AWS Ground Stations, Cloud to Analyze Data From Satellites
Clinton Crosier, director of aerospace and satellite solutions at Amazon Web Services, said AWS is providing ground stations to help companies and government clients process and analyze satellite-derived data and transmit information in minutes, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.
Read More »NASA Receives CACI-Built Laser Comms Transmitter for Deep Space Mission; John Mengucci Quoted
CACI International has handed over to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory a laser communications transmitter designed to send data across 200 million miles at optimized speeds.
Read More »Blue Origin Names Seven Advisory Board Members
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket venture has appointed seven government and industry veterans to its newly formed board of advisers that will counsel the firm's leadership team on space business matters.
Read More »AIAA Names Five Johns Hopkins APL Personnel as Associate Fellows
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has inducted Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory staff members Doug Adams, Justin Likar, Mike Ryschkewitsch, Bradley Wheaton and Matthew Zuber into the professional society's 2021 class of associate fellows.
Read More »NASA, SpaceX Eye Nov. 21 Launch for Sentinel-6 Satellite
NASA and SpaceX plan to launch Sentinel-6, an ocean monitoring satellite designed to help researchers explore how climate change affects the Earth's coastlines, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on Nov. 21 from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Read More »NASA Selects Northrop-Built Performance Measurement Tech for Perseverance Mars Rover
NASA has partnered with Northrop Grumman to deploy the latter's inertial navigation system designed to help extend the operational life of the agency's Mars exploration rover Perseverance.
Read More »NASA Selects Eight US Companies to Manufacture High-Pressure Ventilator Systems
Eight U.S. companies have been selected by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to produce machines that are based on a high-pressure ventilator technology to aid in the fight against COVID-19. The manufacturers will receive free licenses for the Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally prototype, which JPL engineers created over a 37-day period.
Read More »NASA Introduces Mars 2020 Rover
NASA has unveiled to the media the rover unit that will be fielded for the agency's Mars exploration mission in 2020.
Read More »General Atomics Reports Nominal Operation of Orbital Test Bed’s Atomic Clock Payload
A miniature atomic clock device on board the General Atomics-built Orbital Test Bed continues to function nominally nearly six months after the OTB satellite launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Read More »Lockheed Ships Protective Shell to NASA for Mars 2020 Rover
Lockheed Martin has delivered an aeroshell that will cover and protect the Mars 2020 rover as the spacecraft descends to Mars.
Read More »ColdQuanta Hands Over Quantum Core Tech for ISS Cargo Delivery Mission
NASA is slated to deliver ColdQuanta's Quantum Core atomic technology to the International Space Station as part of the agency's 19th cargo resupply mission.
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