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.
Read More »Johns Hopkins APL Passes Mission Confirmation Review for Mars Probe Spectrometer
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.
Read More »ULA, NASA in Final Launch Vehicle Preparations for Mars Mission
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.
Read More »Raytheon Eyes Software-Based Approach to Transform Air Traffic Mgmt
Raytheon is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to develop a modern, software-based approach for aircraft tracking, Avionics International reported Friday.
Read More »Chris Brady, President of General Dynamics Mission Systems, Named to 2020 Wash100 for Driving Innovation in Enterprise Data, Military and Defense Technology
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.
Read More »Honeywell to Supply Software, Hardware for Lockheed’s Orion Spacecraft
Honeywell has secured a contract to help Lockheed Martin produce a fleet of Orion spacecraft for NASA’s space exploration missions.
Read More »NASA Introduces Mars 2020 Rover
NASA has unveiled to the media the rover unit that will be fielded for the agency’s Mars exploration mission in 2020.
Read More »Tim Cole: Maxar Completes Systems Requirements Review of Lunar Gateway’s Propulsion Element
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.
Read More »Rocket Lab Installs New Platform at Second Launch Complex
Rocket Lab has completed and installed a new launch platform at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport for launches of the Electron vehicle.
Read More »NASA, Lockheed Conclude Mars Rover Heat Shield Test
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.
Read More »Rick Ambrose: Lockheed Helps NASA Prepare for Return to Lunar Surface
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.
Read More »BAE-Made Computers Support NASA’s InSight Mission
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.
Read More »SpaceX Preps Crew Dragon Spacecraft for First Unmanned Test Flight
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 …
Read More »NASA Seeks New Planetary Science Investigations for Discovery Program
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 …
Read More »Maxar’s MDA Business to Design Rover Subsystems for NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return Campaign
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 …
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