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Boeing has delivered the final piece of hardware that will complete NASA’s Space Launch System rocket intended to launch Artemis I, an uncrewed mission to the moon with the Orion spacecraft. Aboard the Pegasus barge, the 212-foot-tall rocket core stage arrived at Kennedy Space Center to be stacked with the upper stage, twin rocket boosters, a launch vehicle stage adapter and Orion, the company said Thursday.

Boeing has completed a hot-fire test of the cryogenic core stage the company built for NASA's Space Launch System rocket. The company and NASA performed the test at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Thursday as part of the Green Run test campaign and collected data that will be used in the certification of the core stage for flight.

Lockheed Martin and NEC have agreed to expand their partnership to further advance the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in spacecraft development programs, including NASA's Orion vehicle for the Artemis mission. "The power of AI is leveraged across our entire enterprise, and with a trusted partner like NEC, we gain the resources to expand its abilities at scale across our internal operations," said Rick Ambrose, executive vice president at Lockheed's space business and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner.

SolarWinds is spending as much as $25 million to implement security measures and to cover fees associated with a large-scale hack that compromised government and enterprise customers of the software provider's Orion network monitoring technology, CRN reported Thursday.

Northrop Grumman has cleared the first unit under U.S. Customs Border and Protection's 14-aircraft P-3 Orion fleet to undergo depot-level maintenance activities in Lake Charles, Louisiana, over a 10-year period.

A Jacobs-led ground systems engineering team will prepare the Orion spacecraft for final processing and fueling as a prerequisite to rocket integration activities of an upcoming lunar flight mission. The company said Tuesday its Exploration Ground Systems team received Orion on Saturday at Florida-based Kennedy Space Center to prepare the spacecraft for NASA's Artemis program.

Lockheed Martin has sent the Orion capsule to NASA's exploration ground systems team for final preparations ahead of the unmanned Artemis I mission to lunar orbit that will launch later this year. The spacecraft concluded assembly operations and testing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Boeing has wrapped up a critical design review for the exploration upper stage of a rocket built in support of NASA's Artemis I mission, and will now begin its transition to hardware build phase.

NASA has received the first Solid Rocket Booster segment for its Space Launch System and Jacobs has begun the stacking and integration of the system boosters at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the agency's Artemis I mission.

Northrop Grumman has entered into an agreement with Lockheed Martin to provide additional abort system components for the Orion capsule that will be used for NASA's subsequent Artemis missions to deep space.

An Ultra Electronics subsidiary has received a $31M order to supply software-defined tactical radio systems to the U.S. Marine Corps for line-of-sight communications. USMC ordered ORION X500 radios via a potential $497M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract Ultra TCS secured last year, the company said Monday.

Lockheed Martin has partnered with Microsoft to use the latter's mixed-reality collaboration tool to help engineers visualize procedures while assembling the Orion spacecraft for NASA's Artemis II crewed mission to lunar orbit.

Lockheed Martin has selected Luna Innovations to provide sensors for monitoring the internal environment and external corrosion of the Orion spacecraft NASA will use to transport astronauts to deep-space destinations.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has fulfilled its task to produce hardware necessary for the propulsion of the rocket that would send a crewed Orion spacecraft around the moon as part of NASA's second Artemis mission. The company said Monday it completed the RL10 and RS-25 engines for the Space Launch System in support of Artemis II, the second integrated SLS-Orion flight and the first lunar flyby with crew.

Science Applications International Corp. has secured a potential five-year, $42M task order from the U.S. Army to develop, field and maintain a decision support system for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.