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    ULA Launches Lockheed-Built GOES-S Weather Satellite for NOAA

    A weather satellite that Lockheed Martin built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration took off Thursday aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S system will be called GOES-17 once it reaches the geostationary orbit within two weeks and will undergo a checkout and validation phase […] More

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    Jacobs Recognized for NASA Research Center Maintenance Program; Terry Hagen Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has received the 2017 Best Reliability Program of the Year award from Uptime magazine for the company’s work on a maintenance system at NASA’s Langley Research Center. Jacobs said Tuesday it helped the space agency create maintenance strategies for the Langley facility as well as implement a suite of tools for the center to prevent […] More

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    NASA, Rice University Develop ‘Upper Extremity’ Wearable Tech

    NASA and Rice University have collaborated to build a wearable technology designed to activate the user’s elbow joints and the shoulder with a cable transmission system. The Soft Wearable Upper Extremity Garment, nicknamed “Armstrong,” uses Bowden cable actuators to manipulate synthetic tendons that cross the upper body, NASA said Saturday. The agency’s Wearable Robotics Laboratory has applied the technologies produced […] More

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    Lisa Pratt Cites Near-Term Priorities as NASA’s Planetary Protection Officer

    Lisa Pratt, recently appointed planetary protection officer at NASA, has said her near-term priorities include the Mars 2020 rover mission and InSight Mars lander mission that is set to take off May 5, SpaceNews reported Monday. Pratt, an astrobiologist and former professor at Indiana University’s department of Earth and atmospheric sciences, said she aims to […] More

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    Carahsoft to Distribute RackTop Storage Products to Govt Sector, Reseller Network

    Cahrasoft Technology has signed a deal to become the distributor and master government aggregator of RackTop-built data management and orchestration products. Carahsoft said Thursday it will distribute RackTop’s technology offerings to federal customers and resellers through the General Services Administration Schedule and NASA‘s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement contract, Carahsoft said Thursday. The Brikstor platform is designed to store and secure government data […] More

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    NASA Sets GOES-S Weather Satellite Launch for March 1

    NASA has announced the launch date of a second weather satellite in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series as March 1. GOES-S will lift off at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s 41st Space Launch Complex in Florida aboard an Atlas V rocket during a two-hour window opening at 5:02 p.m. Eastern time, NASA said Wednesday. The  Lockheed […] More

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    Firelake-Arrowhead to Help Maintain NASA Glenn Research Center Facilities

    Firelake-Arrowhead NASA Services has secured a potential $52.4 million contract to help manage facilities and construction projects for the space agency’s Glenn Research Center. The Construction, Maintenance, Environmental and Testing Services contract has an 18-month base period, a two-year option and an additional 18-month option, NASA said Saturday. The company will also perform environmental and energy […] More

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    NASA Targets April Launch for 14th SpaceX Resupply Mission

    NASA expects the next resupply service mission of a SpaceX-built cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station will launch no earlier than April. Dragon will lift atop Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as part of SpaceX’s 14th mission to deliver supplies and experiments for the space agency under the Commercial Resupply Services contract, NASA said Thursday. The […] More

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    NASA Recognizes San Diego Composites for Orion Program Support Work

    San Diego Composites has won the 2017 Small Business Subcontractor of the Year award from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in recognition of its support work on Orion spacecraft development efforts. SDC produces components for Orion as a subcontractor to the spacecraft’s manufacturer Lockheed Martin, the space agency said Thursday. The San Diego-based company supplied the Orion launch abort system’s ogive and […] More

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    University of Colorado Boulder to Help NASA Analyze Solar Irradiance Sensor Data

    A laboratory of the University of Colorado Boulder has secured a potential five-year, $16.2 million contract to help NASA process, analyze and manage data from a solar irradiance measurement instrument currently installed aboard the International Space Station. The university’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics will provide Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-1 data products along with command procedures, scripts and […] More

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    NASA Receives Ball Aerospace-Built Cryocooler for Landsat 9 Satellite Instrument

    Ball Aerospace has built and delivered a flight cryocooler for the thermal sensor instrument of an Earth observation satellite that NASA aims to launch in December 2020. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland received the Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor-2 cryocooler ahead of a scheduled instrument integration and test, Ball Aerospace said Wednesday. The cryocooler is designed to lower the temperature […] More

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    NASA to Discuss Crewed Flight Contingency Option With Boeing, SpaceX

    Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator of human exploration and operations at NASA, has said the agency is considering crew rotation missions as one option to address a schedule gap that may arise if Commercial Crew Program contractors experience spacecraft certification delays, SpaceNews reported Friday. He told SpaceNews in an interview that NASA will discuss with Boeing and […] More