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  • Rocket Lab Launches NASA's Final Set of Hurricane Monitoring CubeSats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rocket Lab Launches NASA’s Final Set of Hurricane Monitoring CubeSats

    Rocket Lab USA has deployed the second and final set of NASA’s low-Earth orbit small satellites designed for tropical cyclone and hurricane monitoring. The CubeSats were launched aboard an Electron rocket from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand to complete the agency’s four-piece TROPICS constellation or Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm […] More

  • Rocket Lab, Partners Deploy Hurricane Monitoring Satellites to Space for NASA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rocket Lab, Partners Deploy Hurricane Monitoring Satellites to Space for NASA

    A Rocket Lab team has launched into space the first two satellites of a four-part constellation that is designed to monitor cyclone and hurricane activities for NASA. Along with MIT Lincoln Labs, Blue Canyon Technologies and Kongsberg Satellite Services, Rocket Lab said Monday they performed the “Rocket Like a Hurricane” mission to deploy two CubeSats for the Time-Resolved Observations of […] More

  • KBR, KSAT Team Up to Develop Solar Observatory Antenna Network for NOAA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR, KSAT Team Up to Develop Solar Observatory Antenna Network for NOAA

    KBR and Norway-based Kongsberg Satellite Services have partnered to develop ground communications infrastructure for a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observatory designed to observe solar activity in space.  The two companies aim to create a network of terminals and an associated service the Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 mission the agency plans to launch in […] More

  • Parsons-led Consortium to Support Operations of NOAA's Polar Orbiting Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons-led Consortium to Support Operations of NOAA’s Polar Orbiting Satellites

    A Parsons-led team will provide engineering support, information technology functionality and flight operations assistance for three Polar Operational Environmental Satellites of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  Under a $16 million NOAA contract, the team comprising of ASRC Federal unit Arctic Slope Technical Services, Kongsberg Satellite Services and Parsons will support the operations of NOAA-15, […] More