Tag Archives: Sierra Nevada

Leidos’ Dynetics subsidiary has started developing a spacecraft called Autonomous Logistics Platform for All-Moon Cargo Access under a potential $253M contract with NASA to develop human landing systems for the agency’s lunar mission by 2024, CNBC reported Wednesday.

Sierra Nevada Corp. has received a $12.4M contract to help the U.S. Navy modernize equipment for air traffic control and landing functions aboard aircraft carriers.

Sierra Nevada Corp. is exploring potential applications that may employ the Dream Chaser spacecraft and its components, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.

Sierra Nevada Corp. is slated to begin full assembly efforts for a spacecraft that will work to support NASA's cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has concluded preliminary design review efforts for a tactical missile system booster under a multi-phase initiative.

Sierra Nevada Corp. has teamed up with NASA’s Langley Research Center to carry out two entry, descent and landing projects, both of which are intended to enable the safe performance of space missions, over the next two years.

United Launch Alliance has started updating manufacturing tools and robotic assembly lines at its factory in Decatur, Ala., as it prepares to transition to Vulcan Centaur rocket production, SpaceNews reported Monday.

Several companies have expressed interest in NASA’s new commercialization plan for the International Space Station, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.

NASA has released the results of studies conducted by 12 companies to identify potential commercial opportunities in the International Space Station and other low-Earth orbit destinations.

A source selection statement issued by NASA Thursday shows that price and contract terms were the factors that helped Maxar Technologies win a  $375M contract to build and demonstrate a power and propulsion element for the agency’s proposed lunar Gateway space station, SpaceNews reported Friday.

NASA has awarded contracts worth $45.5M combined to study and develop human lander prototypes in the next six months in support of its Artemis lunar exploration initiative. The space agency said Friday the companies will produce prototypes of a human landing platform with descent, ascent, transfer and refueling elements and shoulder at least 20 percent of the total development cost under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships Appendix E contracts.

Some industry executives have said that NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program has provided companies an opportunity to advance their technology platforms and form partnerships with additional firms, SpaceNews reported Thursday. “Going back to the moon with commercial technology opens the floodgates,” said Grant Anderson, president, CEO and co-founder of …

The U.S. Air Force has issued a draft solicitation for the Light Attack Aircraft program as the service prepares to release the final request for proposals in December. The draft RFP comes after it wrapped up the Light Attack Experiment’s second phase that involved aircraft offerings from Textron and the Sierra …

Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, top acquisition official at the U.S. Air Force, has said the service will call off the remaining flights in its light-attack experiment following the death of a naval pilot in an aircraft crash on June 22, Defense News reported Tuesday. The accident involved the A-29 Super …

The U.S. Air Force has announced plans to further test non-developmental aircraft offerings from Textron Aviation and the Sierra Nevada–Embraer team through the second phase of the Light Attack Experiment program. The service branch said Friday it will continue to experiment with Textron’s AT-6 Wolverine as well as Sierra Nevada and Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano at Davis-Monthan Air Force …