BAE Systems-built electronic systems aboard more than 300 satellites have logged a cumulative flight time of 10K orbit-years. The company said Monday its single board computers helped power satellites over the past three decades and provided onboard processing functions for government and commercial space missions.
Read More »NASA Begins to Review 12 Proposals for Future Unmanned Solar System Exploration
NASA has received and begun to review 12 proposals for a future unmanned solar system mission that could be launched in the mid-2020s. The space agency said Friday the proposals submitted under the New Frontiers program will undergo scientific and technical review in the next seven months. NASA plans to choose one or more concepts …
Read More »NASA Seeks R&D Proposals for Future Robotic Planetary Mission
NASA has begun to solicit proposals for a robotic planetary mission that the space agency aims to launch by the mid-2020s. The agency said Friday the future program will serve as the fourth mission under NASA’s New Frontiers portfolio that includes the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt; the Juno …
Read More »Microsemi Product Line Continues to Support NASA Juno Spacecraft Mission in Jupiter
Microsemi has supported a NASA mission that completed the successful orbit insertion of the Juno spacecraft sent to Jupiter to begin the data collection phase of its mission following a five-year journey. The company said Tuesday its RTSX-SU and RTAX-S field programmable gate array product lines were used in various applications during the …
Read More »Harris Delivers Comms, Connectivity Services to Support NASA Juno Mission on Jupiter
Harris has provided communications and monitoring connectivity to support the NASA mission to insert the Lockheed Martin-built Juno spacecraft into an elliptical polar orbit around Jupiter. Harris said Tuesday a team of more than 100 employees supported operations, maintenance and engineering work for the space agency and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network. “Harris …
Read More »Lockheed-Built Juno Spacecraft Reaches Orbit Around Jupiter; Guy Beutelschies Comments
NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Lockheed Martin‘s mission support area have worked together to operate and place the company-built Juno spacecraft into a large elliptical polar orbit around Jupiter. Lockheed said Monday the probe reached Jupiter Monday evening after a 1.76-billion-mile journey in the last five years. A team of engineers from the company and …
Read More »Johns Hopkins APL's Instrument Aboard Lockheed-Built Spacecraft Seeks to Study Jupiter's Aurora Formation
A NASA spacecraft with a Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory-built instrument that works to measure high-energy particles is scheduled to reach Jupiter on July 4 as part of a mission to study the planet and the universe. Johns Hopkins APL's Jupiter Energetic Particle Detector Instrument onboard the Lockheed Martin-built Juno …
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