The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Redwire a contract to lead the development of a satellite equipped with novel electric propulsion systems for a demonstration in very low Earth orbit under the Otter program. The spacecraft will be based on the SabreSat VLEO satellite design, a highly flexible orbital drone that can support […]
Mississippi-based Vertex Aerospace has secured a multiyear contract to oversee operations at NASA’s Sonny Carter Training Facility, a critical component of astronaut training at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Vertex Aerospace will provide technical, managerial and administrative support to ensure the ongoing functionality and reliability of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory’s integrated hardware and software […]
Four companies will support the Space Systems Command as it develops laser communication terminal prototypes under the initial phase of the Enterprise Space Terminal project. Under the $100 program, the U.S. Space Force selected Blue Origin, CACI International, General Atomics and Viasat as eligible vendors to compete for task orders related to designing and delivering […]
Blue Origin, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance will be participating in the U.S. Space Force’s effort to develop the National Security Space Launch initiative. From 2025 to 2029, the three contractors will be competing for task orders valued at up to $5.6 billion under NSSL Phase 3, handling the government’s national security launches, which will […]
Plus3 IT Systems has announced its role as Parson’s subcontractor on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Traffic Coordination System for Space program. The contract entails providing system integration and cloud management services as well as implementing a secure and scalable cloud-based system for TraCSS, Plus3 IT said. The system will be responsible for ingesting, […]
LeoLabs will support the innovation hub of the Department of the Air Force in developing and testing the capabilities of a new radar system designed to track objects in very low Earth orbit. Tony Frazier, CEO of LeoLabs, said the Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract from AFWERX covers the delivery of an S-band-D […]
NASA is consolidating its field centers’ information technology support service requirements into a single contract, which the agency has awarded to CACI International. The NASA Consolidated Applications and Platform Services contract covers a potential eight-year service, with a maximum potential value of around $2 billion. It provides a 90-day phase-in period, a nine-month base term, […]
NASA has awarded Raytheon a contract valued at up to $506.7 million to develop instruments for the Landsat Next mission. The contract tasks Raytheon to provide three instruments, with an option for a fourth, along with related services, NASA said. Raytheon’s responsibilities span the entire lifecycle of the Landsat Next devices – from design and […]
NASA has ordered two 12U cubesat buses from RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies for the Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer mission, which will study high-altitude ice clouds in tropical and subtropical regions to improve the accuracy of climate forecasts. The satellite buses will carry PolSIR radiometers to monitor the full diurnal cycle of high-altitude ice clouds through […]
NASA has selected proposals to conduct concept studies for a mission designed to investigate the Earth’s surrounding space weather and its interaction with the planet’s atmosphere. The studies will support the Dynamical Neutral Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling mission by shedding light on how changes in the lower atmosphere influence the upper atmosphere, where space weather phenomena such […]
