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    Manhattan Construction to Build Instrument Developent Facility for NASA

    Manhattan Construction has received a potential $31.1 million contract to build an instrument development facility at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. NASA said Saturday the company will construct a 54,200-square-foot multistory building to house Science and Exploration Directorate and the Planetary Environments Laboratory. The agency expects the facility to obtain the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership […] More

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    SpaceX Launches Orbital ATK-Made ‘TESS’ Spacecraft for NASA

    A satellite that Orbital ATK built for NASA’s Astrophysics Explorer mission lifted off Wednesday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is designed to identify planets nearby host stars to facilitate characterizations of those planets and their atmospheres through the use of four wide-field cameras, […] More

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    Lockheed, PADT, Stratasys Collaborate on 3D Printing for NASA Spacecraft Parts

    Lockheed Martin‘s space business, Stratasys and Phoenix Analysis & Design Technologies have partnered to engineer 3D-printed parts for spacecraft NASA intends to use on deep-space exploration missions. Stratatys said Tuesday it will provide advanced materials to the project such as the company’s ULTEM 9085 resin and an electrostatic dissipative variant of the Anterro 800NA thermoplastic. PADT helps produce thermoplastic components […] More

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    NASA to Test StemRad’s Radiation Protection Vest During Unmanned Orion Flight

    NASA and the Israel Space Agency have agreed to launch a radiation protection vest from StemRad on the first unmanned flight test of the Orion spacecraft with the Space Launch System. StemRad said Tuesday intends for its AstroRad vest to measure the potential impact of radiation exposure on humans through the Matroshka AstroRad Radiation Experiment, during NASA’s Exploration Mission 1. […] More

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    NASA Plans Supersonic Research Flight Series in Texas

    NASA plans to launch a flight campaign in Galveston, Texas, to explore approaches for the agency to gather community response data as part of its Commercial Supersonic Technology Project. The agency said Thursday it will kick off a series of research flights in November from the Ellington airport and use an F/A-18 aircraft to test supersonic dive […] More

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    AIA’s Eric Fanning on Commercial Space Industry, National Space Council

    Eric Fanning, CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association, spoke with Politico in an interview published Friday about the current administration’s interest in space and how it helps facilitate involvement of space companies. “Like any market, as commercial viability increases and more companies are formed, that’s what we’re seeing in space. We’re seeing more [companies] that […] More

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    Ball Aerospace turns over NOAA-20 weather satellite to NASA

    Ball Aerospace has handed over the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s first Joint Polar Satellite System to NASA after the completion of a satellite acceptance review. The company said Thursday the acceptance review showed that the JPSS-1 weather satellite, which now operates as NOAA-20, satisfied on-orbit requirements. Ball Aerospace-built NOAA-20 launched in November 2017 aboard United […] More

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    Six future space technologies selected for NASA Flight Opportunities program

    NASA will help mature six space technologies through the agency’s Flight Opportunities program that will facilitate low-gravity simulation tests onboard aircraft and suborbital rockets. The space agency said Thursday it will award funds to cover the integration and flight, and limited payload development costs for the selected demonstrations that will validate the technology’s feasibility to reduce technical risks. […] More

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    General Atomics to feature Orbital Test Bed model at 34th Space Symposium

    General Atomics has announced its electromagnetic systems business will showcase a new spacecraft model designed to host technology payloads for demonstration. The company said Wednesday GA-EMS will exhibit the Orbital Test Bed along with other satellite and space system offerings at the 34th Space Symposium scheduled to take place in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from April 15 to 19. “Our […] More

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    Steve Ambrose named Woolpert government solutions program director

    Steve Ambrose, a former scientist at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has joined Woolpert as program director for the company’s government solutions business. He brings more than 40 years of Earth science, data engineering, climatology and geospatial experience to his new position, Woolpert said Tuesday. Jeff Lovin, senior vice president and director of government solutions […] More

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    Iridium eyes May 19 launch for 6th ‘NEXT’ satellite batch, rideshare mission

    Iridium Communications plans to launch on May 19 the Iridium-6 rideshare mission aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Falcon 9 will send into orbit five Iridium NEXT satellites and two satellites as part of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On mission of NASA and GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Iridium said Monday. […] More

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    NASA’s Solar Probe to Undergo Final Assembly, Tests at Astrotech Facility in Florida

    A solar probe Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory designed and built for NASA has arrived at Lockheed Martin‘s Astrotech Space Operations facility in Florida to begin pre-launch tests and preparations. APL said Thursday the Parker Solar Probe is scheduled to lift off July 31 at the Kennedy Space Center to study the sun’s outer atmosphere over […] More