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  • Johns Hopkins Participants in Mercury Mission Receive NASA Recognition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins Participants in Mercury Mission Receive NASA Recognition

    NASA has granted its Group Achievement Award to Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory personnel and external partners who contributed to a Mercury mission that concluded three years ago. The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging, or MESSENGER, mission, which was intended to orbit and examine the planet Mercury, lasted for over four years […] More

  • SSL Taps Northrop to Provide Navigation Tech for Satellite Constellation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL Taps Northrop to Provide Navigation Tech for Satellite Constellation

    Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary has selected Northrop Grumman to provide a navigation system for integration into a satellite constellation. Northrop said Thursday it will supply the Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit designed to support a space vehicle’s attitude control and sensor pointing/stabilization functions through the contract with SSL. Scalable SIRU is built for commercial, government and civilian space […] More

  • NASA Releases Mercury’s Initial Global Topographic Model from Messenger Mission; Kris Becker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Releases Mercury’s Initial Global Topographic Model from Messenger Mission; Kris Becker Comments

    NASA’s Planetary Data System has unveiled Mercury’s initial global digital elevation model produced through the use of at least 100,000 images and data collected by the space agency’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging spacecraft. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory said Friday the global DEM details the planet’s lowest and highest elevation and other topographic features. […] More

  • NASA's Messenger Spacecraft to End Nearly 4 Years at Mercury's Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft to End Nearly 4 Years at Mercury’s Orbit

    NASA‘s Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft has uncovered several key information about the planet Mercury during its nearly four years of on-orbit operations. NASA said Thursday the Messenger spacecraft is now anticipated to crash-land on Mercury by the end of the month as it runs out of helium gas propellant following a series of orbit correction maneuvers. “While spacecraft […] More