Blue Origin has filed an airspace restriction notice with the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct spaceflight operations this week at its test site near Van Horn, Texas, Spaceflight Now reported Sunday. The notice to airmen could mark the initial test flight of the Blue Origin-built third New Shepard booster as …
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Defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing have started to step up efforts to compete in the space segment as they see new business opportunities in the market, Space News reported Thursday. Bruce Tanner, chief financial officer at Lockheed, said at an earnings call Tuesday the company …
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Orbital ATK has started production work on development hardware for its large- and intermediate-class family of space launch vehicles. Orbital ATK said Monday its Next Generation Launch family of rockets is designed to launch commercial, national security and scientific satellites that are too huge to fly aboard the company’s Antares, Pegasus …
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A SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket completed a take-off and vertical landing operation on a drone ship at sea Friday after the rocket launched SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft to transport 7,000 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station, Space.com reported Friday. Calla Cofield writes Falcon 9 took off from Cape Canaveral Air …
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ASRC Federal has won a Small Business of the Year award from Lockheed Martin in recognition of the company’s work on a contract for NASA’s Orion spacecraft. ASRC Federal’s space and defense business accepted the 2015 Rigel Award in February during a ceremony that was held to commemorate the arrival of …
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NASA and its industry partners Blue Origin, Boeing, Sierra Nevada Corp. and SpaceX together passed 23 milestones in the Commercial Crew Program in 2014 as they seek to develop crew space transportation systems. NASA said Monday the program also included technical review sessions to ensure the reliability and safety of those systems, which would …
Read More » Boeing, Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada Corp. and SpaceX have reported their current statuses on their respective agreements with NASA under the Commercial Crew Program for space transportation systems. “Our partners’ detailed progress on launch and spaceflight capabilities expands domestic access to space,” Kathy Lueders, manager of the Commercial Crew Program, said Friday. NASA said these …
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Boeing Co. won a total of $35,280,627 for two Air Force contracts to provide space vehicle parts and support, the Defense Department announced Thursday. Boeing’s Satellite Systems Inc. received $21 million to supply Space Vehicle-10 parts as part of the Wideband Global SATCOM 7 Satellite & Beyond program. The business …
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