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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.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has completed a mission confirmation review for a gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer technology designed to support Japanese spacecraft on a mission to study the two moons of Mars.

United Launch Alliance has delivered its Atlas V rocket to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida in preparation for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission in the coming weeks, NASA Spaceflight reported Monday.

Raytheon is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to develop a modern, software-based approach for aircraft tracking, Avionics International reported Friday.

Executive Mosaic is thrilled to present Chris Brady, president of General Dynamics Mission Systems, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for his work to advance and innovate enterprise data, infrastructure systems and defense programs to help and protect federal agencies, military customers and our nation’s national security and defense.

Honeywell has secured a contract to help Lockheed Martin produce a fleet of Orion spacecraft for NASA’s space exploration missions.

NASA has unveiled to the media the rover unit that will be fielded for the agency’s Mars exploration mission in 2020.

Tim Cole, program manager for the power and propulsion element at Maxar Technologies, said in an interview published Monday that the company wrapped up the two-day systems requirements review of the PPE at its Palo Alto, Calif.-based facility to assess and document the platform’s technical requirements.

Rocket Lab has completed and installed a new launch platform at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport for launches of the Electron vehicle.

Lockheed Martin and NASA completed the final static test for a heat shield intended to protect the Mars 2020 rover from extreme thermal conditions on its mission toward the red planet.

Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin's space business and a 2019 Wash100 winner, said in a video interview aired Tuesday he predicts NASA will send humans back to the moon via a lunar gateway within the next decade.

BAE Systems recently revealed that NASA had equipped its InSight spacecraft, which landed on Mars in November last year, with BAE's radiation-hardened RAD750 single board computers. Jim LaRosa, the company's director for Space Processor and Products, said that the RAD750s "commanded a series of critical maneuvers" as InSight descended onto the Martian surface.

SpaceX has started preparations for the uncrewed test flight of its new Crew Dragon spacecraft scheduled for mid-January, Space.com reported Sunday. The company in the past week transferred the spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket to Launch Pad 39A at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX hopes to launch Crew Dragon …

NASA has released a draft funding opportunity that seeks new planetary studies to support the space agency’s Discovery Program. The agency said Wednesday it plans to allocate $500M for up to five projects in fiscal year 2019. The Discovery Program offers flight opportunities to science investigations that could help expand …

Airbus has awarded Maxar Technologies‘ MDA business a contract to design subsystems for a rover NASA and the European Space Agency plan to use in a joint mission to collect and return samples from Mars to Earth. MDA will aim to develop mobility and sample acquisition systems for potential integration into a “Sample …