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  • Lockheed Tests NASA Space Probe's Robotic Sampling Arm - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Tests NASA Space Probe’s Robotic Sampling Arm

    A team of Lockheed Martin engineers has commanded NASA‘s OSIRIS-REx space probe to move a robotic sampling arm designed to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu. Lockheed said Friday its engineering team tested movements of the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism to determine the TAGSAM device’s readiness for upcoming asteroid surface material collection. OSIRIX-REx, which lifted off in September 2016 aboard an Atlas V […] More

  • NASA to Fund Johns Hopkins Proposal to Use Quadcopters for Exploration Mission on Saturn's Moon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Fund Johns Hopkins Proposal to Use Quadcopters for Exploration Mission on Saturn’s Moon

    NASA has selected a Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory proposal as one of two finalists for the space agency’s New Frontiers program which aims to further solar system exploration efforts. Johns Hopkins said Thursday the proposed Dragonfly dual-quadcopter vehicle will look to evaluate the prebiotic organic chemistry as well as the habitability of Saturn’s […] More

  • NASA Seeks R&D Proposals for Future Robotic Planetary Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks R&D Proposals for Future Robotic Planetary Mission

    NASA has begun to solicit proposals for a robotic planetary mission that the space agency aims to launch by the mid-2020s. The agency said Friday the future program will serve as the fourth mission under NASA’s New Frontiers portfolio that includes the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt; the Juno mission to Jupiter; and the […] More

  • EaglePicher to Supply Power Source for Lockheed-Built NASA Solar System Study Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EaglePicher to Supply Power Source for Lockheed-Built NASA Solar System Study Spacecraft

    Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business has selected EaglePicher to provide a power source for the NASA Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft launched in September. EaglePicher said Monday it has provided 8-cell lithium batteries, the main spacecraft battery and two identical 28-volt, 30-ampere-hour batteries to power the return capsule as well as integrated battery […] More