Tag Archives: JPL

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.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 29, 2019 — Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) received a potential 10-year, $300M contract to supply NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory with flight software and space platforms, GovCon Wire reported Oct. 9.

Richard French, who spent 12 years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has joined Rocket Lab as director of global government launch services. He previously worked as the lead systems engineer on NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive mission and earned the Honors Early Career Public Achievement Medal from the agency for his efforts in that program, Rocket Lab said Thursday.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has concluded critical design review of a science instrument that will support studies on Europa, a moon that orbits Jupiter.

NASA has awarded a worldwide commercial license and contract to Apollo Fusion for Jet Propulsion Laboratory's magnetically shielded miniature hall thruster. The award allows Apollo Fusion to produce three engineering models of the MaSMi thruster in support of JPL's Ascendant Sub-kW Transcelestial Electric Propulsion System or ASTRAEUS, the company said Tuesday.

A spacecraft that Lockheed Martin built for NASA’s Mars exploration mission landed Monday on the red planet’s surface. The InSight Mars Lander made its descent on Elysium Planitia in the planet’s equatorial region and transmitted a tone through its X-band small deep space transponder seven minutes after the spacecraft’s landing, …

Amazon Web Services kicked off its two-day Public Sector Summit on June 20 in Washington, D.C., and Teresa Carlson, vice president of AWS worldwide public sector, welcomed approximately 9,000 attendees to the event. One of the highlights of the summit is the launch of a cloud computing degree by Northern Virginia …

Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary built and provided the transceiver assembly components for a pair of Microwave Ranging Instruments that took off in May as part of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On mission of NASA and the German Research Center for Geosciences. Al Tadros, vice president of SSL’s space …

NASA aims to launch a Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft next month on a mission to study the interior and seismic activity of Mars. InSight is scheduled to lift off May 5 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard an Atlas V 401 rocket and built to explore the red planet’s crust, mantle and …

Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary has secured a contract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to design and develop a critical system for a spacecraft designed to explore Jupiter’s Europa moon through investigative flybys. SSL said Tuesday it will build a critical interface – Remote Engineering Unit – for the Europa Clipper spacecraft that …

NASA will test a supersonic parachute system for potential use in future Mars missions through the launch of a suborbital sounding rocket supported by Orbital ATK under a contract from the space agency’s Heliophysics Division. Orbital ATK has received the NASA Sounding Rocket Operations contract and will provide mission planning, …

Lockheed Martin has shipped NASA‘s robotic Mars lander to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to undergo final processing ahead of the spacecraft’s May 5 launch aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V 401 rocket. The InSight probe is designed to explore the red planet’s deep interior and map the planet’s basic structure to …

NASA and Lockheed Martin have evaluated the solar arrays of a future Mars robotic lander technology inside a clean room at the company’s facility in Littleton, Colorado. The space agency said Tuesday its Jet Propulsion Laboratory led the InSight evaluation process wherein the platform deployed its solar arrays while in a landed configuration …

Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary will collaborate with a team at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Michigan to carry out a space mission to study the sun. SSL said Monday the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment aims to launch a small satellite constellation designed to explore how solar energetic particles are …

NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a request for proposals on the development of camera technology for a proposed lander mission on Jupiter’s moon Europa. A FedBizOpps solicitation notice posted Oct. 26 says the agency seeks a Europa lander descent camera that would comply with Planetary Protection requirements and work to capture images for …