Alutiiq's essential services unit has secured a potential five-year, $34M contract to help NASA manage laboratory functions at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
Lockheed Martin is now ready to transport the crew capsule of the Orion spacecraft from Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to Kennedy Space Center in Florida following the completion of the structural closeout weld in July, NASASpaceflight.com reported Tuesday. Orion will launch with four astronauts aboard the Space Launch System rocket as part of Exploration Mission-2 that […] More
Lockheed Martin has begun construction work at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, on a spacecraft designed to transport astronauts to the moon as part of Exploration Mission-2. The Orion crew capsule will launch aboard the Space Launch System rocket as part of EM-2 mission that is expected to establish the framework for […] More
NASA has concluded a comprehensive review of the potential launch schedule for an integrated flight test of Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. The space agency said Thursday it assessed the impact of manufacturing and supply challenges on Orion’s first European service module as well as tornado damage that affected the space agency’s New Orleans-based Michoud […] More
Aerojet Rocketdyne has developed four engines that will support NASA‘s maiden flight for the Space Launch System. The company said Wednesday that the RS-25 engines are now ready to be integrated on the SLS rocket’s core stage in preparation for the Exploration Mission-1 mission. “These four EM-1 engines have …Â powered 21 shuttle flights with the […] More
Security Walls has been awarded a potential five-year, $45.3 million contract to provide a range of protective services at two NASA facilities located in Alabama and Louisiana. NASA said Wednesday the company will help the agency secure physical infrastructure, technology and personnel as well as support emergency management, training requirements and range operations at the Marshall Space Flight Center and […] More
NASA has completed the preliminary design review of the exploration upper stage for the Space Launch System rocket designed to bring the Orion spacecraft to deep space by 2021 as part of its first crewed flight mission. “With the completion of this review, our teams will start developing components and materials for the EUS, and […] More
NASA has kicked off its use of specialized transporters built by Wheelift to transport the core stage and test articles of the Space Launch System to various agency centers for tests. The space agency said Tuesday the mobile platforms are designed to carry the 212-foot SLS core stage, the largest part of the SLS rocket built to […] More
Hanks, Hanks & Associates has been awarded a potential five-year, $29.3 million contract to provide clerical support, records maintenance and other administrative services for NASA’s Alabama-based Marshall Space Flight Center and New Orleans-based Michoud Assembly Facility. The space agency awarded the firm-fixed-price contract through a competitive acquisition as part of the government’s 8(a) initiative for small […] More
A team of NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers has fused two sections of an Orion crew module that the agency intends to send into a lunar distant retrograde orbit with the Boeing-built Space Launch System. The spacecraft’s tunnel and forward bulkhead were welded together on Saturday at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, the […] More