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  • InfoZen Helps NASA Create Online Multimedia Database - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    InfoZen Helps NASA Create Online Multimedia Database

    InfoZen has helped NASA to develop and launch a searchable database of 14,000 downloadable images, video and audio files on the images.nasa.gov website, GCN reported Wednesday. The database is hosted in Amazon Web Services‘ cloud platform and powered by Limelight Network‘s content delivery service, according to the report. InfoZen operates the online library using the AWS Lambda serverless computing service. […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests 2nd SLS Flight Engine Controller Unit; Eileen Drake Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests 2nd SLS Flight Engine Controller Unit; Eileen Drake Comments

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has tested a second flight engine controller for its RS-25 rocket engine at NASA‘s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. NASA will use the Aerojet Rocketdyne-made engine technology to power the Space Launch System as part of a planned unmanned space mission, the company said Tuesday. Eileen Drake, president and CEO of Aerojet Rocketdyne, said the RS-25 development and flight engines logged more than 6,800 […] More

  • SES Completes UV Imaging Payload Integration on Communications Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES Completes UV Imaging Payload Integration on Communications Satellite

    SES has integrated a NASA instrument payload equipped with an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph onto the company’s SES-14 geostationary communications satellite. The Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk instrument’s spectrograph is designed to measure temperatures and densities in the Earth’s ionosphere and thermosphere to investigate ionospheric disruptions to navigation and communication transmissions, SES said Tuesday. SES-14 is built to provide C– […] More

  • NASA Plans Instrument Devt Competition for Potential Europa Lander Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Plans Instrument Devt Competition for Potential Europa Lander Mission

    NASA plans to launch a competition for the development of science instruments that would fly aboard a surface probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa. The space agency said Wednesday it looks to evaluate and select proposed investigations from the scientific community for a planned Europa lander mission via a two-step competitive process. “We want the community to be prepared for this announcement […] More

  • Inmarsat's Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: 4th Global Xpress Satellite Launch Aims to Advance Satcom Tech Resilience - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: 4th Global Xpress Satellite Launch Aims to Advance Satcom Tech Resilience

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has said the launch of the fourth Boeing-built satellite for the Global Xpress satellite communications network seeks to validate Inmarsat’s efforts to promote resilience within its satcom offerings. The Inmarsat-5 F4 satellite lifted off Monday aboard a SpaceX-made Falcon 9 rocket from a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center […] More

  • NASA Solicits Tech Proposals From Academia to Support Human Exploration Plans - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Solicits Tech Proposals From Academia to Support Human Exploration Plans

    NASA‘s space technology mission directorate seeks early-stage technology proposals from academic institutions that can support the agency’s human exploration and solar system research goals in the long term. The space agency said Wednesday the Early Stage Innovations program will fund research projects in specific areas of interest to the country’s space program including advanced coating technology, cross-cutting […] More

  • ViON, Kaminario Partner on Flash Storage Offering for Federal Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON, Kaminario Partner on Flash Storage Offering for Federal Agencies

    Information technology company ViON and all-flash storage provider Kaminario have forged a partnership to offer flash storage to federal agencies. ViON said Wednesday it will implement the Kaminario K2 all-flash storage array with an as-a-service model to support agencies’ cloud migration efforts. The joint offering is designed to support agencies’ IT modernization projects and aid compliance with the Federal Risk […] More

  • Carahsoft, CloudPassage Partner to Offer Workload Security Platform in Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft, CloudPassage Partner to Offer Workload Security Platform in Public Sector

    CloudPassage has partnered with Carahsoft to offer on-demand server and workload security service to the public sector through the latter’s positions on the General Services Administration Schedule 70 and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement contract vehicles. Carahsoft said Tuesday that it will act as master government aggregator of CloudPassage’s  Halo platform in an effort to help agencies protect servers in cloud computing […] More

  • Inmarsat Launches 4th Boeing-Built Global Xpress Satellite; Rupert Pearce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Launches 4th Boeing-Built Global Xpress Satellite; Rupert Pearce Comments

    The fourth Boeing-built broadband communications satellite launched into space Monday to join Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite communications network. The Inmarsat-5 F4 satellite took off aboard a SpaceX-made Falcon 9 rocket at 7:21 p.m. Eastern time from a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and transmitted telemetry data to a ground station in Perth, Western […] More

  • NASA Begins to Review 12 Proposals for Future Unmanned Solar System Exploration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Begins to Review 12 Proposals for Future Unmanned Solar System Exploration

    NASA has received and begun to review 12 proposals for a future unmanned solar system mission that could be launched in the mid-2020s. The space agency said Friday the proposals submitted under the New Frontiers program will undergo scientific and technical review in the next seven months. NASA plans to choose one or more concepts for Phase A study then […] More

  • NASA Issues Awards to 2 Teams Under 3D-Printed Space Habitat Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Issues Awards to 2 Teams Under 3D-Printed Space Habitat Challenge

    NASA has awarded a total of $100,000 to the two top scorers under the printing stage of the space agency’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge. Teams from Foster + Partners and the University of Alaska received $85,930 and $14,070, respectively, for gaining the highest points among seven participants of the level 1 compression test competition, NASA said Thursday. The 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge aims […] More