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BWX Technologies announced on Thursday that NASA has awarded its subsidiary, BWXT Advanced Technologies, a one-year $9.4 million contract to continue its Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) design, manufacturing development and test support work. The contract builds on BWXT“™s work that started in 2017.

NASA has partnered with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to enable the space agency to use the latter's New Shepard suborbital vehicle for flights to study reduced gravity scenarios similar to the gravity on the moon. The new capability for lunar gravity testing is expected to be available in late 2022.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is using Amazon Web Services' cloud computing technology to process and host data from the Perseverance rover, which touched down Thursday on Mars to survey the red planet.

A Spirit AeroSystems subsidiary has landed a potential five-year, $24 million contract to deliver thermal protection systems that will support upcoming NASA deep space exploration missions.

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.