DISA Selects 16 Vendors to Compete for Proliferated LEO Satellite Services Task Orders

Sixteen companies will compete for task orders under a potential 10-year, $900 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for proliferated low-Earth orbit satellite services. The selected vendors are Arinc, Artel, Capella Federal, BlackSky, SES Space & Defense, Hughes Network Systems, Inmarsat Government, KGS, Intelsat General Communications, OneWeb, PAR Government, RiteNet, Satcom Direct Government, SpaceX, Trace Systems and UltiSat, […]
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Amazon to Build Florida Satellite Construction Facility for Project Kuiper

Amazon is planning to build a $120 million satellite construction facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in support of the Project Kuiper constellation. The satellite internet architecture is designed as a competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink constellation, which now has over 4,000 spacecraft providing satellite communications to customers in various sectors. Amazon’s new establishment will […]
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Intermap Secures USGS Contract to Support Artemis III Preparations

Geospatial intelligence provider Intermap Technologies has received a contract to provide the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA’s Artemis III mission with NEXTMap elevation data and precision radar imagery. NEXTMap provides 3D digital elevation models to government and commercial customers. Intermap CEO and Chairman Patrick Blott said his company’s products, unlike extrapolated synthetic data, will enable […]
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Parsons to Support ASRC’s Maintenance and Engineering Work at Goddard Space Flight Center

ASRC Facilities Logistics, a subsidiary of ASRC Federal, has awarded Parsons a subcontract to support the repairs, operation, maintenance and engineering work at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island in Virginia. NASA had selected ASRC Facilities Logistics to provide the services beginning on Aug. 1 under a potential […]
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NASA Awards KBR $1.9B Space Mission Support Contract

KBR has secured a potential nine-year, $1.93 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide support services for NASA space exploration missions. Work under the Integrated Mission Operations Contract III involves avionics and software support, capability development, and the provision of spaceflight operations products and services. The contract will benefit the NASA Johnson Space Center Flight Operations Directorate, […]
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SpaceWERX Hosts Workshop to Encourage Collaboration on Orbital Defense Capabilities

SpaceWERX, the U.S. Space Force’s innovation arm, recently hosted a Tactically Responsive Space Challenge Definition Workshop in Las Vegas to kickstart an effort to acquire faster orbital defense capabilities by 2026. Present at the two-day event were military end-users of such technology and subject matter experts from the public, private and academic sectors. The event […]
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