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  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Supports Launch of Lockheed-Built Air Force Missile Warning Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Supports Launch of Lockheed-Built Air Force Missile Warning Satellite

    Aerojet Rocketdyne provided a range of propulsion products to support the launch of the U.S. Air Force‘s fourth Lockheed Martin-built missile warning satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket on Friday. An Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ-60A solid rocket strap-on motor powered the Atlas V’s Centaur upper stage to transport the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit […] More

  • 4th Lockheed-Built SBIRS GEO Satellite Responds to Post-Launch Air Force Commands - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    4th Lockheed-Built SBIRS GEO Satellite Responds to Post-Launch Air Force Commands

    The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that a fourth Lockheed Martin-built missile warning satellite responded to initial commands shortly after the spacecraft’s launch on Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Lockheed said Friday the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight-4 satellite received initial signals from the Air Force’s 460th Space Wing approximately […] More

  • Air Force to Launch Lockheed-Developed Multi-Mission Satellite Onboard ULA-Built Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force to Launch Lockheed-Developed Multi-Mission Satellite Onboard ULA-Built Rocket

    The U.S. Air Force will launch a Lockheed Martin-built multi-mission satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in California on Thursday, Jan. 18. ULA said in a report the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight-4 satellite was built to offer missile warning, missile defense, battlespace awareness and […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Equipment Supports NRO Natl Defense Payload Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Equipment Supports NRO Natl Defense Payload Launch

    Aerojet Rocketdyne supplied equipment to support the deployment of a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite which flew onboard a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV rocket. The NROL-47 national defense mission satellite was launched with the help of an Aerojet Rocketdyne-developed RS-68A booster engine, RL10B-2 upper stage engine, 14 helium pressurization tanks and a dozen MR-106H 9 lbf […] More

  • Orbital ATK Backs ULA's NRO Mission With Rocket Motors, Composite Structures - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Backs ULA’s NRO Mission With Rocket Motors, Composite Structures

    Orbital ATK supplied composite structures, motors and other components for a Delta IV rocket that United Launch Alliance launched Friday to bring a National Reconnaissance Office payload into space. Orbital ATK said Friday the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s Delta IV rocket that took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as part of the NROL-47 national defense mission has […] More

  • ULA’s Delta IV Sends NRO National Defense Payload to Space - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA’s Delta IV Sends NRO National Defense Payload to Space

    A National Reconnaissance Office payload lifted off Friday at 2:11 p.m. Pacific time aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV rocket as part of the NROL-47 national defense mission. Will Crawford, NRO program manager at ULA, said in a statement published Friday the payload’s launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California marks the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s 27th NRO mission in partnership with the […] More

  • Lockheed to Begin Final Processing of NOAA's GOES-S Weather Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Begin Final Processing of NOAA’s GOES-S Weather Satellite

    Lockheed Martin has shipped the next weather satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite–R series to a company facility in Titusville, Florida, to undergo final processing and pre-launch preparation. GOES-S, the second of four satellites in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s GOES-R constellation, is scheduled for March 1 liftoff atop United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V 541 rocket at […] More

  • L3 Chosen as ULA Vulcan Rocket Avionics Provider - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Chosen as ULA Vulcan Rocket Avionics Provider

    L3 Technologies has agreed to be the exclusive avionics and services provider for United Launch Alliance‘s Vulcan Centaur rocket under a potential 10-year, $1 billion agreement. Both companies plan to combine design and manufacturing processes in an effort to customize technologies intended to help boost ULA’s launch service offerings, L3 said Monday. Vulcan Centaur is designed […] More

  • Orbital ATK Completes JPSS-2 Weather Satellite Design Review - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Completes JPSS-2 Weather Satellite Design Review

    Orbital ATK has wrapped up a critical design review of the second Joint Polar Satellite System. The company said Friday it partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA to carry out the review to assess whether the JPSS-2 spacecraft program meets schedule and system requirements. The CDR phase also sought to evaluate […] More

  • Air Force, Lockheed Transport 4th SBIRS Missile Warning Satellite to Cape Canaveral - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force, Lockheed Transport 4th SBIRS Missile Warning Satellite to Cape Canaveral

    Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force shipped a fourth Geosynchronous Earth Orbit missile warning satellite Oct. 31 to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The company said Tuesday GEO Flight 4, the service branch’s next Space Based Infrared System, is scheduled for liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket in January. SBIRS is designed […] More

  • Boeing, Air Force Vet Craig Cooning Elected to BridgeSat's Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Air Force Vet Craig Cooning Elected to BridgeSat’s Board of Directors

    Craig Cooning, an 11-year Boeing veteran and president of its network and space systems business, has joined the board of directors at satellite communications technology firm BridgeSat. BridgeSat said Tuesday it added Cooning as a board member as the company aims to build an advanced optical communications network designed to help address a growing demand for satellite data. Cooning previously […] More