NASA is turning to industry to build what it calls commercial low-Earth orbit destinations, which are billed to become the next generation of space stations. The start of the CLD project comes amid the impending retirement of the International Space Station, Nextgov reported Thursday. Phil McAlister, NASA’s director of commercial spaceflight, told attendees at Nextgov’s […]
NASA has awarded Leidos a potential $270 million contract to provide science and operations support at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California. Fully Integrated Lifecycle Mission Support Services 2 is a single-award cost-plus-fixed-fee contract that includes a two-year base period of performance and three one-year option periods, Leidos said Thursday. As one of […]
NASA is involved in a lawsuit filed by Blue Origin, which argued that the agency was not able to properly evaluate the company’s proposal for the Human Landing System program. SpaceX won the contract to support the program aimed at building the final mode of transportation that will take astronauts to the surface of the […]
BlackSky Holdings, a geospatial imagery provider, has been awarded a contract modification to provide on-demand satellite imagery to the National Reconnaissance Office through a monthly subscription. The company said its products are suited for homeland defense, national security and emergency response missions. The effort is funded through NRO’s Electro-Optical Commercial Layer program, BlackSky said. CEO […]
NASA’s decision to migrate its data to the cloud was prompted by a need for more space rather than because of security concerns, an agency official said. The space agency has spent billions of dollars addressing the shortage of data storage capacity amid the flood of new data coming from next-generation satellites and overseas ground […]
A test flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner reusable crew capsule will be delayed for several months to give engineers time fix a problem with the spacecraft’s valves, the vehicle’s manufacturer said. According to Boeing, the spacecraft, which was scheduled to launch earlier in August, will be detached from its Atlas 5 rocket and sent back […]
The U.S. Space Force officially launched the Space Systems Command on Aug. 13 at the Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, California. SSC, the second of the Space Force’s three field commands, will take on the responsibilities of the Space and Missile Systems Center. With an annual budget of $9 billion and a […]
NASA is providing funds to minority-serving institutions to work on various projects that will support the agency’s top priorities, including understanding and monitoring global ocean health, helping build a more inclusive workforce, and realizing the Artemis program’s goal of returning humans to the moon. The Minority Universe Research and Education Project is funding four new […]
SpaceWERX will be officially launched on Aug. 19 and with it, a Phase I Open Topic Small Business Technology Transfer solicitation for space technologies. The upcoming solicitation will foster collaboration between small businesses and university researchers to build a space workforce and develop cutting-edge technologies. The idea behind the open topic approach is to allow […]
The first batch of U.S. astronauts to land on the moon in over 50 years may have to wait a little longer because NASA’s next-generation spacesuits will not make it in time for the scheduled 2024 mission. In a report released Tuesday, the space agency’s Office of Inspector General said the new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility […]
