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  • Inmarsat's Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: 4th Global Xpress Satellite Launch Aims to Advance Satcom Tech Resilience - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: 4th Global Xpress Satellite Launch Aims to Advance Satcom Tech Resilience

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has said the launch of the fourth Boeing-built satellite for the Global Xpress satellite communications network seeks to validate Inmarsat’s efforts to promote resilience within its satcom offerings. The Inmarsat-5 F4 satellite lifted off Monday aboard a SpaceX-made Falcon 9 rocket from a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center […] More

  • Inmarsat Launches 4th Boeing-Built Global Xpress Satellite; Rupert Pearce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Launches 4th Boeing-Built Global Xpress Satellite; Rupert Pearce Comments

    The fourth Boeing-built broadband communications satellite launched into space Monday to join Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite communications network. The Inmarsat-5 F4 satellite took off aboard a SpaceX-made Falcon 9 rocket at 7:21 p.m. Eastern time from a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and transmitted telemetry data to a ground station in Perth, Western […] More

  • Report: SpaceX Deploys NRO Payload to Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: SpaceX Deploys NRO Payload to Orbit

    SpaceX has launched the National Reconnaissance Office‘s classified payload dubbed NROL-76 aboard a company-built Falcon 9 rocket, TechCrunch reported Monday. Falcon 9 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the rocket’s first stage was separated to perform controlled landing at SpaceX’s Cape Canaveral-based landing pad, reported TechCrunch. The company postponed the initial launch attempt on Sunday due to […] More

  • NASA Kennedy Center Hosts Robotic Programming Competition for Students - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Kennedy Center Hosts Robotic Programming Competition for Students

    NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center held a robotic programming competition that sought to encourage students from U.S. universities and colleges to develop software codes for space exploration robots. The space agency said Wednesday that 20 teams representing 22 minority-serving universities and community colleges participated in the second annual Swarmathon competition held from April 18 to 20 at KSC, while 15 college […] More

  • Report: SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket to Carry NRO Payload Into Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket to Carry NRO Payload Into Orbit

    SpaceX is preparing for the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to send a classified payload into space for the National Reconnaissance Office, Space News reported Wednesday. Phillip Swarts writes the rocket will carry the NROL-76 payload that may include a data relay satellite built to operate in the Molniya orbit. The […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Hydrazine Engine for Boeing's CST-100 Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Hydrazine Engine for Boeing’s CST-100 Spacecraft

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has conducted hot-fire qualification tests on a hydrazine monopropellant engine the company designed to help address reusability requirements for the propulsion system of a Boeing-built crew module. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday it built and tested the MR-104J engine technology for Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation-100 Starliner as part of a subcontract awarded through NASA‘s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability program. The spacecraft’s propulsion system will be equipped […] More

  • NASA Taps Lockheed Subsidiary for Commercial Payload Processing Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Lockheed Subsidiary for Commercial Payload Processing Services

    A Lockheed Martin subsidiary has landed a potential five-year, $45 million contract to provide commercial payload processing services for the space agency’s missions that launch from the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA said Friday that Lockheed’s Astrotech Space Operations business will support pre-launch processing of spacecraft and associated launch vehicle flight hardware for  […] More

  • SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 Rocket With Reused Booster Into Orbit; Elon Musk Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 Rocket With Reused Booster Into Orbit; Elon Musk Comments

    SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a reused lower stage to deliver a communications satellite into orbit from NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center, Space.com reported Thursday. Irene Klotz writes the launch was the first reflight of a used orbit-class rocket booster and the second time it landed on SpaceX’s Of Course I Still Love You robotic drone ship at sea. […] More

  • SpaceX's Dragon Lifts Off With Science Experiments, Research Equipment Headed to ISS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX’s Dragon Lifts Off With Science Experiments, Research Equipment Headed to ISS

    The SpaceX-built Dragon spacecraft launched Sunday morning from NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a Falcon 9 rocket to deliver 5,500 pounds of experiments, research equipment and supplies to the International Space Station as part of the company’s 10th cargo resupply mission with the agency. NASA said Sunday the CRS-10 mission represents the first commercial launch from KSC’s […] More

  • NASA to Deploy Ozone Measurement Payload to ISS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Deploy Ozone Measurement Payload to ISS

    NASA plans to launch an instrument designed to measure Earth’s ozone as part of SpaceX‘s 10th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The agency said Saturday the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III on ISS  payload will launch with the SpaceX-built Dragon spacecraft this month from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SAGE III will be attached to […] More

  • NASA Completes Preliminary Design Review of Space Launch System’s Exploration Upper Stage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Completes Preliminary Design Review of Space Launch System’s Exploration Upper Stage

    NASA has completed the preliminary design review of the exploration upper stage for the Space Launch System rocket designed to bring the Orion spacecraft to deep space by 2021 as part of its first crewed flight mission. “With the completion of this review, our teams will start developing components and materials for the EUS, and […] More